gravestone

Example Sentences

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At Hollywood Forever, and just about every other cemetery, you can inter a box or urn of ashes in the ground under a gravestone, where you’d lay the casket in a traditional burial.

From Los Angeles Times

About 12,000 people per year visit Claiborne Farm, and everyone agrees most do so foremost to see Secretariat’s gravestone among the 23 in the handsome and understated little cemetery.

From Washington Post

Artillery had knocked over gravestones and left deep craters in some plots.

From New York Times

Visitors toted bouquets of flowers, jugs of water for plants, and brooms to clean gravestones.

From Seattle Times

They say the name Tombstone may come from the cemetery down the road, where gravestones dating to the late 1800s and early 1900s stand listing on uneven ground.

From Los Angeles Times