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tombstone

[toom-stohn] / ˈtumˌstoʊn /
NOUN
grave marker
Synonyms


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Nearby, a well-maintained veterans cemetery can be seen, its tombstones decorated with wreaths and flowers.

From Barron's

Leah could see the tops of tombstones from her kitchen pantry.

From Literature

As I jumped up, I glimpsed the somber tombstones all around me.

From Literature

“When I die,” Rob Reiner once joked to an interviewer, “I want my tombstone to read, ‘Now I’m in this place!’”

From Los Angeles Times

She balked at the idea of a traditional burial, calling caskets and tombstones “a racket.”

From Salon