cairn

Example Sentences

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One person would stay at the first cairn while another would try to locate the next cairn.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024

“This dramatically oversized cairn is a mark of human impact and is distracting in a wilderness setting,” the post read.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023

Mr Cassie was involved in the construction of a Jubilee cairn in Ballater featuring 60 stones from 30 hills.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2022

I’ve been there myself, digging as deep as I could into the long and honorable history of my cairn terriers and Pomeranians.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2021

Nearby lay a rectangular cairn - hundreds of stones piled in the shape of an oversized grave with a granite obelisk for a headstone.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan