Thesaurus results for HEADSTONE

headstone

noun

ˈhed-ˌstōn

as in tombstone

a shaped stone laid over or erected near a grave and usually bearing an inscription to identify and preserve the memory of the deceased many of the headstones were for children who had died during the influenza epidemic

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Recent Examples of headstone The town of Red Ash was abandoned in the 1950s, and today, the island lies quietly as a part of West Virginia’s history, with just a handful of headstones remaining. —

Jordan Charbonneau, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2026 Sifuentes said Moreno told her that the headstone was taking a while to arrive because the materials were not available. —

Gabriella Ybarra, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2026 That headstone, curiously, belonged to a man with the same last name as his and sparked the unraveling of historical mysteries surrounding this town. —

Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026 At one point in the book, Elaine de Kooning’s headstone actually disappears from the cemetery. —

Literary Hub, 17 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for headstone

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In 1975, the museum purchased his work Georgia Gate, a structure of fluidly bent pine staves inspired by photos of Georgia tombstones the artist saw in musicologist Marshall Stearns’s 1970 book The Story of Jazz.

— News Desk, Artforum, 8 Mar. 2026
Last year, the City Council approved an ordinance to offer rewards for information involving theft of city plaques, tombstones, statues, light standards, and copper wire, and theft of metals linked to the Sixth Street Bridge.

— City News Service, Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026