tombstones

Example Sentences

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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 man crunches his way toward us, through this snow-covered field and past rows upon rows of identical wooden tombstones, then gestures back in the direction he came from.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2026

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

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2025

It was empty of shoppers that morning—nothing but the occasional sound of automobiles breaking the graveyard silence of the cars in the lots, lined up like tombstones.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison