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
“We’re now left with a gravestone that’s in multiple pieces,” she added.
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
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
The 30 available gravestones, many now without distinguishable inscriptions, date back to the 19th Century.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
Happy Valley used to be covered in gravestones.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 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
The moon shone brilliantly on the sodden grass, the mossy gravestones, the crumbling mausoleum, the figures in their hideous embrace between the columns.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
