tombstone
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A bouquet of red, white and blue flowers rested against the tombstone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
In Ain Ebel's cemetery, Jallad caresses her son's tombstone, surrounded by women trying to comfort her.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
Mr. O’Brien refused concessions and tweeted an image of a tombstone “Yellow: 1924-2023.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Unlike the vast majority of his predecessors, he will not be buried in St Peter's, but in a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in central Rome, beneath a tombstone inscribed only with his name.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025
He stopped at a tombstone marked with a recently carved name: Tate.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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
Nearby, a well-maintained veterans cemetery can be seen, its tombstones decorated with wreaths and flowers.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 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
They began to walk without another glance at the abandoned streets, the dead, empty houses, the gardens, the tombstones .
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
