we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones
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Police were told that the gravestones from the late 1800s appeared to have had their plaques and headstones forcibly removed.—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 8 July 2025 Stones River National Cemetery (May 25, Murfreesboro): Youth groups will place flags on the more than 7,000 gravestones at the Stones River National Cemetery on Saturday.—Alessia Sandala, The Tennessean, 26 May 2025 The gravestone itself features a Tupperware container for storing cookies, allowing people to give a treat back to the original creator and other cemetery goers.—Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 21 June 2025 In that way and in many others, the history of Arlington National Cemetery is our history, telling our story in rows upon rows of white gravestones, monuments and memorials.—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 27 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for gravestone
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