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Examples of tombstone in a Sentence
the historic cemetery's many tombstones marking the graves of children are telling reminders of the harshness of pioneer life
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The dead could be buried at potter’s fields like Washington Square, but the city forbade any tombstones to mark those interred there.
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Their names have been recorded on Pages of Testimony, which serves as tombstones.
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Officials are working to clean up the vandalism before a Memorial Day event on Monday and plan to power wash the tombstones to clean them.
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Even his tombstone repeats a lie; he wasn’t born in 1895.
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Catcher Brian McCann stood in a priest’s robes next to faux tombstones, ready to deliver the eulogy.
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Corey Lanerie went shopping for his wife’s tombstone Thursday.
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In a strange and somehow fitting denouement, Laurel Hill’s tombstones, grave markers and other monuments ended up being scattered all across the city.
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Cattle sometimes broke through the fence and knocked over tombstones, The Baltimore Afro-American reported.
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First Known Use of tombstone
1565
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