gravestone
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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
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 ● Jan. 16, 2026
In the cemetery, Munzanza's mother Florence knelt by his gravestone and wept.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
A gravestone for Ebenezer Scrooge, left behind after the filming of a 1984 movie adaptation of A Christmas Carol, has been smashed.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
How he came from a long line of gravestone cutters in Colombia and began carving at the age of five.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Nevertheless, protesters held fake gravestones reading “RIP local business,” “RIP crew call” and “RIP creativity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
A ragtag online group, the “Grave Marker Recovery Team,” hunts down gravestones that have been stolen, typically to sell at antique shows as accents for upscale decorating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
He was told locals of an ancient village near Chepstow had awoken to find more than 50 holes mysteriously dug among the gravestones of their churchyard.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
The sun was beating down on me so hard that I felt like I was about to faint on the gravestones.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
He knew Mrs. Lyte was dead and two sons had been drowned as boys, and girls had died in infancy—this he could read upon the slate gravestones of Copp’s Hill.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
