gravestone

Example Sentences

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Considering his own mortality, while consumed by daily news of death and destruction on the network he founded, Turner mused about what one day might be inscribed on his gravestone.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

“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 • Jan. 14, 2026

In the cemetery, Munzanza's mother Florence knelt by his gravestone and wept.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

The gravestone is seen in the film when Scrooge is confronted by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come and he wipes away snow to reveal his own name.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024

My homework swims in front of my closed eyes—the Intro to Wall Street stock-picking game, the Inca history paper, the ding-dong math test—they appear as if on a gravestone.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini