Example Sentences

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Having spent the past 20 years in Mississippi, the couple will be remembered by friends and family for amassing a collection of nearly 1,000 announcements of the demised.

From Washington Times • Apr. 8, 2018

Photograph: Rebecca Jewell/Ghosts of Gone Birds They are all, alas, bleeding demised, passed on, no more, ceased to be, bereft of life and resting in peace.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2011

Perhaps never was he so proud of them as last September, when "Rudy," their favorite fox terrier, unhappily demised.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was demised to her doubtless before her marriage, but it was not altered in relation to her after her marriage.

From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)

Shortly after he learned to roll a safe game of Pool, his Governor demised.

From Ade's Fables by McCutcheon, John T.