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we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones
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Mortality Seeing your own paltry funeral and gravestone?
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James Folta, Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
As Scrooge throws himself to the ground and begs the Spirit to tell him if these are things that will be or things that can be changed, the gravestone is supposed to slide offstage via hand-crank.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 4 Dec. 2025
Last year, a CNN investigation found that the Israeli military desecrated at least 16 cemeteries in its ground offensive in Gaza, leaving gravestones ruined, soil upturned and, in some cases, bodies unearthed.
—Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
His gravestone is broken, and Klein hopes that members of TikTok’s gravestone restoration community may eventually help decipher the inscription and shed light on what became of Sarah.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
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James Folta, Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
As Scrooge throws himself to the ground and begs the Spirit to tell him if these are things that will be or things that can be changed, the gravestone is supposed to slide offstage via hand-crank.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 4 Dec. 2025
Last year, a CNN investigation found that the Israeli military desecrated at least 16 cemeteries in its ground offensive in Gaza, leaving gravestones ruined, soil upturned and, in some cases, bodies unearthed.
—Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
His gravestone is broken, and Klein hopes that members of TikTok’s gravestone restoration community may eventually help decipher the inscription and shed light on what became of Sarah.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gravestone
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravestone. Accessed 11 Dec. 2025.
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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