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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These travels have then influenced the creation of memorial and grave gardens back home, inspired by the first modern cemeteries where gravestones doubled as planters.
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Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
About a week before, thieves toppled over gravestones and stole metal plaques from Woodlawn Memorial Park in Compton, according to volunteers at the cemeteries and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
Thieves have also stolen more than a hundred gravestone plaques from a cemetery in Carson.
—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
Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
About a week before, thieves toppled over gravestones and stole metal plaques from Woodlawn Memorial Park in Compton, according to volunteers at the cemeteries and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
Thieves have also stolen more than a hundred gravestone plaques from a cemetery in Carson.
—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
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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