Thesaurus results for GRAVESTONE

gravestone

noun

ˈgrāv-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 we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones

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Recent Examples of gravestone These days, Grant doesn't get many of her recipes from researching gravestones herself. —

Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026 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 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 This gravestone represents the foundation stone upon which Real Madrid was built. —

James Pearce, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gravestone

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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