Examples of gravestone in a Sentence
we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones
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Thieves have also stolen more than a hundred gravestone plaques from a cemetery in Carson.
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Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
The Explorer pulled off the Cross Bronx and into a hundred and eighty acres of gravestones.
—Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Reading Evergreen’s gravestones is reading Los Angeles history: Hollenbecks, Van Nuyses, Lankershims are here.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
And some thieves are even stealing metal plaques from gravestones in cemeteries—this has happened both in the UK and the US.
—Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 20 Feb. 2024
The Israeli military has desecrated at least 16 cemeteries in its ground offensive in Gaza, a CNN investigation has found, leaving gravestones ruined, soil upturned, and, in some cases, bodies unearthed.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
The fire had blackened the cemetery’s soil, scorching trees and dumping ash on white gravestones.
—Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2023
The couple’s gravestones will be by a willow tree at the edge of the pond.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
For years, local activists have wanted a marker to memorialize Choate in Maury County, where the gravestone of Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest is located.
—Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
The Explorer pulled off the Cross Bronx and into a hundred and eighty acres of gravestones.
—Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Reading Evergreen’s gravestones is reading Los Angeles history: Hollenbecks, Van Nuyses, Lankershims are here.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
And some thieves are even stealing metal plaques from gravestones in cemeteries—this has happened both in the UK and the US.
—Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 20 Feb. 2024
The Israeli military has desecrated at least 16 cemeteries in its ground offensive in Gaza, a CNN investigation has found, leaving gravestones ruined, soil upturned, and, in some cases, bodies unearthed.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
The fire had blackened the cemetery’s soil, scorching trees and dumping ash on white gravestones.
—Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2023
The couple’s gravestones will be by a willow tree at the edge of the pond.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
For years, local activists have wanted a marker to memorialize Choate in Maury County, where the gravestone of Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest is located.
—Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
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First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of gravestone was
in the 14th century
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravestone. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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