tombstone
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Celan called it a tombstone for his mother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
But his tombstone was defaced on Thursday morning, local authorities said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
"With just 22 million rupees, we've restored 92 buildings, eight or nine clocks, and some 1,300 tombstone plaques."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
They'll just put "American Psycho," the Huey Lewis scene, his business card scene or whatever on my tombstone, and you have to kind of accept it.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2025
When the tightness inside her finally relaxed, she lay down on the earth, her cheek pillowed on her hand, staring slackly at the faint outlines of her mother’s tombstone in the dark.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
Bimbo is maneuvered into a graveyard whose tombstones sway and sing, and whose ground opens up to reveal teeth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Soldiers who demonstrated "extraordinary valour" are honoured with outdoor graves and tombstones, while others are commemorated in urns inside the columbarium.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
In the town's cemetery, an AFP journalist saw a hole that looked like a dug-up grave, surrounded by other tombstones.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
The art installation consists of over 100 tombstones, each with identical black fists and names I remember from 2020.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026
She threw her head back and her cackling laugh showed off her old-lady teeth which looked like a couple rows of tiny marble tombstones.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
