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headstone

[hed-stohn] / ˈhɛdˌstoʊn /
NOUN
gravestone
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Second, a granite headstone, measuring six feet by three feet, will be erected.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026

Recently, they supported a family who were unable to afford a headstone for their son.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

A few pens have been left on the headstone, which has been replaced at least once; generations of fans have attempted to obliterate “Hughes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Other notable artifacts connected to St. Eustatius are a headstone from its Jewish cemetery, commemorating a merchant’s wife, and a Hanukkah lamp from Amsterdam that was eventually carried to St. Thomas by Jewish exiles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

The name on her headstone is Mary Roselyn Spinney Beaman, so you might say she got to have it both ways.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

Every year, local people come along and rub beach sand into the marble headstones so the names of those U.S. soldiers can still be read.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

The “expat graveyard” is filled with headstones of people who boldly declared, “We love it here. We’re never leaving.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026

Beneath moss-covered cinder blocks, dilapidated stone markers, and a handful of headstones, more than 200 children who died in state custody between the 1870s and 1930s are buried.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026

They often have an image of the soldier in uniform engraved on the headstones.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026

I took up my place behind a yew-tree, and I saw his dark figure move until the intervening headstones and trees hid it from my sight.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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