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 the video, a wilderness restoration ranger gently shoves over a cairn, which appears to be several feet high.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023

Scientists identified three cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague, in human remains - two in a mass burial in Somerset, and one in a ring cairn monument in Cumbria.

From BBC • May 31, 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

“Of course you can,” she replied, and in a loud voice asked for a volunteer to escort me back to the cairn.

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