gravestone

Example Sentences

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“We don’t want to pay you off, we came to offer to pay for your son’s gravestone.”

From Literature

I was about to turn away when I saw a small constellation of rocks, stacked as if on a gravestone.

From Literature

Their authors were seldom scholars; more often they were nonprofessional writers and editors whose volunteer contributions ranged from family snapshots to gravestone photographs, fragmented town histories, folkloric anecdotes and tall tales.

From The Wall Street Journal

“People sell those markers, even those little vases you put on them, and melt them down for money,” says Rebecca Meyer, 48, a gravestone conservationist and president of Epoch Preservation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Maintenance of gravestones and monuments in Parisian cemeteries are the responsibility of families - not the city.

From BBC