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
“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
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
He looked at the gravestone that lay flat on the ground.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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
Maintenance of gravestones and monuments in Parisian cemeteries are the responsibility of families - not the city.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
But when I go to these cemeteries and take pictures of the gravestones, I’m not usually scared.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
Gathering at the Ghost Tire Memorial, they left flowers and small lights near tires set up like gravestones with the names of crash victims.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2024
Not cheap cardboard gravestones, but full-on motorized zombies that creep across the driveway by themselves.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
