Wondering how to use Obit in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as obituary or announcement.
Obit in a sentence
Related words
Obit meaning
- The death of a person.
- A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person.
- A record of a person's death.
Synonyms of Obit
Using Obit
- The main meaning on this page is: The death of a person. | A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. | A record of a person's death.
- Useful related words include: obituary, necrology, announcement, promulgation.
- In the example corpus, obit often appears in combinations such as: an obit, obit writer, obit on.
Context around Obit
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Obit
- In this selection, "obit" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, veteran, straight, guardian, writer and notes stand out and add context to how "obit" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a full obit will follow and a relief obit writer at. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "obit" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with obit
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That’s the straight obit. (5 words)
A full obit will follow. (5 words)
A couple days ago, she left an obit on the counter for me. (13 words)
He’s also been a model of efficient reporting and writing, knocking out an obit on a beloved local resident in a day and a half and doing a quick turnaround that raised questions about closing an RV park for homeless residents in Bayview. (44 words)
She was a “bright and passionate learner” who attained a master’s in nursing and nurse practitioner diploma, the obit notes, achieving her goal of becoming a practising health-care provider at the Britt Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic. (38 words)
RealBluesMagazine.com Obit of Curtis Tillmann, who witnessed the death * Graham Greene relates in his first autobiography, A Sort of Life (1971), that he played Russian roulette, alone, a few times as a teenager. (34 words)
Example sentences (12)
One of the main narrative lines of “Obit” is the shaping of Wilson’s obituary, composed by veteran obit writer Bruce Weber.
He’s also been a model of efficient reporting and writing, knocking out an obit on a beloved local resident in a day and a half and doing a quick turnaround that raised questions about closing an RV park for homeless residents in Bayview.
She was a “bright and passionate learner” who attained a master’s in nursing and nurse practitioner diploma, the obit notes, achieving her goal of becoming a practising health-care provider at the Britt Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic.
That’s the straight obit.
There is a brilliantly snooty aside in this Guardian obit about 1960s Americans seeming “content to live on tuna melt … washed down by Coke”, but that sounds spot-on to HTE.
She ended her obit by urging people around her to appreciate their own lives as well.
A couple days ago, she left an obit on the counter for me.
A full obit will follow.
I moved to the Arkansas Times on the invitation of publisher Alan Leveritt, whom I'd met when he was a relief obit writer at the Gazette in 1973.
Maybe an editor passed for lack of interest, or maybe considered an obit but did not have a reporter available to write it.
They somehow compared his obit to Fidel Castro's, thinking the NYT was more "neutral" to the Cuban dictator.
RealBluesMagazine.com Obit of Curtis Tillmann, who witnessed the death * Graham Greene relates in his first autobiography, A Sort of Life (1971), that he played Russian roulette, alone, a few times as a teenager.
Common combinations with obit
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an obit 3×
- obit writer 2×
- obit on 2×