tombstone
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In Ain Ebel's cemetery, Jallad caresses her son's tombstone, surrounded by women trying to comfort her.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
“When I die,” Rob Reiner once joked to an interviewer, “I want my tombstone to read, ‘Now I’m in this place!’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
Mr. O’Brien refused concessions and tweeted an image of a tombstone “Yellow: 1924-2023.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
"With just 22 million rupees, we've restored 92 buildings, eight or nine clocks, and some 1,300 tombstone plaques."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
Outside the privacy of my tree, Prince Charmont stood, reading a tombstone.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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
The church was surrounded by trees and tombstones.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
