Examples of gravestone in a Sentence
we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones
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The cemetery was at first covered by a lumberyard by 1880, even though some gravestones were apparently still standing at that date.
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Michael Hill, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
Getting named after a gravestone is not unorthodox in Haley Hodge's family.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
These weren’t unusual symbols—they can be found on gravestones of the time—but the skulls on pirate flags were shorn of the customary wings symbolizing the dead’s ascent to Heaven.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
Johnson started inscribing veterans’ gravestones almost by accident.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
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Michael Hill, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
Getting named after a gravestone is not unorthodox in Haley Hodge's family.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
These weren’t unusual symbols—they can be found on gravestones of the time—but the skulls on pirate flags were shorn of the customary wings symbolizing the dead’s ascent to Heaven.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
Johnson started inscribing veterans’ gravestones almost by accident.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravestone. Accessed 24 Sep. 2024.
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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