tombstone
Example Sentences
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As I jumped up, I glimpsed the somber tombstones all around me.
From Literature
“When I die,” Rob Reiner once joked to an interviewer, “I want my tombstone to read, ‘Now I’m in this place!’”
From Los Angeles Times
She balked at the idea of a traditional burial, calling caskets and tombstones “a racket.”
From Salon
Soviet officials based in New York traded jokes about the words that would appear on their tombstones.
From Literature
Mr. O’Brien refused concessions and tweeted an image of a tombstone “Yellow: 1924-2023.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
