tombstone
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Mr. O’Brien refused concessions and tweeted an image of a tombstone “Yellow: 1924-2023.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
But his tombstone was defaced on Thursday morning, local authorities said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Unlike the vast majority of his predecessors, he will not be buried in St Peter's, but in a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in central Rome, beneath a tombstone inscribed only with his name.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025
They'll just put "American Psycho," the Huey Lewis scene, his business card scene or whatever on my tombstone, and you have to kind of accept it.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2025
Blue-furred, orange-eyed, red-fanged, a tiger snarled upon his left biceps; a spitting snake, coiled around a dagger, slithered down his arm; and elsewhere skulls gleamed, a tombstone loomed, a chrysanthemum flourished.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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
Nearby, a well-maintained veterans cemetery can be seen, its tombstones decorated with wreaths and flowers.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
The art installation consists of over 100 tombstones, each with identical black fists and names I remember from 2020.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026
Then I had this dream where I was walking in the graveyard alone, without even Sal by my side, and I saw a glowing thing passing between the tombstones.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
