gravestone

Example Sentences

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Considering his own mortality, while consumed by daily news of death and destruction on the network he founded, Turner mused about what one day might be inscribed on his gravestone.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

“People sell those markers, even those little vases you put on them, and melt them down for money,” says Rebecca Meyer, 48, a gravestone conservationist and president of Epoch Preservation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

In the cemetery, Munzanza's mother Florence knelt by his gravestone and wept.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

She added town council staff would be assessing whether it might be possible to repair the broken gravestone, provided all of its pieces remained on site.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024

From the cemetery, I see a small glow that’s the fire, and I sit there, looking at the gravestone with my father’s name on it.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak