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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In a wooded cemetery in Munich, a white sticker with a puzzling QR code appeared on a gravestone late last year.
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Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Quentin Tarantino just erected a gravestone for moviemaking.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
The couple’s gravestones will be by a willow tree at the edge of the pond.
—Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 29 Dec. 2024
Ancient Indigenous mounds found in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee
At Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery, the city’s oldest operating cemetery, history can be seen in every direction – etched on the gravestones, mausoleums and monuments of founders, pioneers, industrialists and beer barons.
—Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
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Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Quentin Tarantino just erected a gravestone for moviemaking.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
The couple’s gravestones will be by a willow tree at the edge of the pond.
—Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 29 Dec. 2024
Ancient Indigenous mounds found in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee
At Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery, the city’s oldest operating cemetery, history can be seen in every direction – etched on the gravestones, mausoleums and monuments of founders, pioneers, industrialists and beer barons.
—Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravestone. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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