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headstone

[hed-stohn] / ˈhɛdˌstoʊn /
NOUN
gravestone
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His recent trip to the grave to leave flowers spurred him on to try and raise money for a new headstone and give it to the family.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Second, a granite headstone, measuring six feet by three feet, will be erected.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026

A few pens have been left on the headstone, which has been replaced at least once; generations of fans have attempted to obliterate “Hughes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Other notable artifacts connected to St. Eustatius are a headstone from its Jewish cemetery, commemorating a merchant’s wife, and a Hanukkah lamp from Amsterdam that was eventually carried to St. Thomas by Jewish exiles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Coming up, there’s a large tomb that resembles a pale blue teapot, and I know my mother’s headstone is a few rows behind it.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

In return, he’d get comforts for his death row cell, including a television, as well as $33,000 to pay off a restitution order and purchase headstones for his parents’ graves, The Times reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The “expat graveyard” is filled with headstones of people who boldly declared, “We love it here. We’re never leaving.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026

Beneath moss-covered cinder blocks, dilapidated stone markers, and a handful of headstones, more than 200 children who died in state custody between the 1870s and 1930s are buried.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026

The newest headstones on the freshly-dug fringes of the graveyard tell an alarming story of a lost generation in this pretty tourist town on Scotland's west coast.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

Stray leaves cover the field, like headstones in a cemetery.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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