tombstones

Example Sentences

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Bimbo is maneuvered into a graveyard whose tombstones sway and sing, and whose ground opens up to reveal teeth.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Soldiers who demonstrated "extraordinary valour" are honoured with outdoor graves and tombstones, while others are commemorated in urns inside the columbarium.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

In the town's cemetery, an AFP journalist saw a hole that looked like a dug-up grave, surrounded by other tombstones.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

Anyone who visits an older cemetery anywhere in North America is startled to see the large numbers of tombstones inscribed with the names of infants and young children.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025

I bit down on my bottom lip and looked out at all the other tombstones.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds