cairn

Example Sentences

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One person would stay at the first cairn while another would try to locate the next cairn.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024

In Pollokshaws, where Maclean was from, he is remembered by a memorial cairn and a stained-glass window in the nearby library.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2024

“This dramatically oversized cairn is a mark of human impact and is distracting in a wilderness setting,” the post read.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023

I’ve been there myself, digging as deep as I could into the long and honorable history of my cairn terriers and Pomeranians.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2021

He’d given me straightforward directions that he simply hadn’t had time to explain: “The Old Man,” I realized, was what the locals called the bog boy, and his grave was the cairn.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs