Examples of tombstone in a Sentence
the historic cemetery's many tombstones marking the graves of children are telling reminders of the harshness of pioneer life
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Manuela and her youngest sister picked yellow wildflowers and placed them on the tombstones.
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Jordan Salama, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
As Paul Fussell observed in The Great War and Modern Memory, a distrust of vacuous language was a hallmark of the words on tombstones at the Somme, not the solemn slogans written by Rudyard Kipling but the inscriptions composed by the families of the dead.
—Karen Parker Lears, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Since the movie’s debut, Scrooge’s tombstone has remained on the grounds of St. Chad’s Church in Shrewsbury.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
The film draws from a real 1980s court case involving Tan Chay Wa’s tombstone.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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Jordan Salama, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
As Paul Fussell observed in The Great War and Modern Memory, a distrust of vacuous language was a hallmark of the words on tombstones at the Somme, not the solemn slogans written by Rudyard Kipling but the inscriptions composed by the families of the dead.
—Karen Parker Lears, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Since the movie’s debut, Scrooge’s tombstone has remained on the grounds of St. Chad’s Church in Shrewsbury.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
The film draws from a real 1980s court case involving Tan Chay Wa’s tombstone.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Tombstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tombstone. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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tombstone
noun
tomb·stone
ˈtüm-ˌstōn 
Geographical Definition
Tombstone
geographical name
Tomb·stone
ˈtüm-ˌstōn
city in the southeastern corner of Arizona population 1380
Note: Tombstone was site of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1881.
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