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

I unfolded myself from the cramped cairn tunnel and stepped outside only to be blinded by light.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs