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
"A headstone marked the grave and a while later Willie had a replica Greyfriars Bobby statue made mounted on a cairn."
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2023
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
In yet another reminder that we’re in Hollywood, on the other side of the stone wall stands a memorial to the cairn terrier that played Toto in the movie.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2021
‘We have not the time or the tools to bury our comrade fitly, or to raise a mound over him. A cairn we might build.’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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