How to Use gravestone in a Sentence

gravestone

noun

• Clicks and likes are not what will be inscribed on our gravestone when our time is done.
  — Larry Dvoskin, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
• Still sporting the same truly terrible bangs from the original, Ryder is caught here between a skull and a gravestone.
  — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2024
• The front of his gravestone lists the dates of his birth and death and the names of his wife and children.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 4 June 2018
• The couple’s gravestones will be by a willow tree at the edge of the pond.
  — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
• Ryan and Emma go to Mary Kate's gravestone all the time.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2022
• Don’t leave him to bang his head on his own gravestone.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2019
• The gravestone found in the water belonged to a man named John Greer.
  — David Goodhue Miami Herald (tns), al, 3 May 2023
• David and Mike Moseley placed their hands on the top of Stephen’s gravestone.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2022
• Stephen Moseley’s gravestone had been set in the ground.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2022
• The photos here are of Harvey’s gravestone and piece of the ledger, shows his name as a Trustee.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 26 Mar. 2021
• Each gravestone a story of someone's life, a link to the past.
  — Bob Dohr, Journal Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2022
• The process to find the gravestone's rightful home was a long one, said Stanaway.
  — Lauren M. Johnson and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
• The woman told the officer the gravestone was moved off the base at her son’s grave site.
  — cleveland, 26 June 2020
• She was buried with a lock of her husband’s hair and his name on her gravestone.
  — NBC News, 4 Jan. 2020
• His gravestone looked like all the others, the first in a line that extends across the grass like pearly white teeth.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2013
• It’s often packed with tourists who wind along its paths to read the markings on the gravestones.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• Photos posted by the groups showed the gravestones knocked over in the grass, many of them broken.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 3 July 2024
• A pet's gravestone, moved from a friend's house, is nearby.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 18 May 2017
• And the Fun Slide, the Fun House, and the the gravestones of many people who laughed or squealed or met their spouse at this carnival.
  — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
• About all that’s left now are the memories, the accolades and the gravestone.
  — Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2021
• There are clusters of gravestones, an odd one plonked in the middle of a paddy.
  — Michelle Jana Chan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2023
• There’s no shortage of gravestones above those who could shoot well but could not or did not act.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 16 Apr. 2020
• Often called the best slate in the world, Peach Bottom slate was used to make blackboards, roof tiles and gravestones.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 25 June 2018
• The Explorer pulled off the Cross Bronx and into a hundred and eighty acres of gravestones.
  — Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• The mural shows a stone angel on a pedestal flanked by two large gravestones in a cemetery.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2024
• The man who was chief justice when Stevens joined the court in 1975, Burger, is buried one row in front of them, in the same row as Stevens' gravestone.
  — Jessica Gresko, USA TODAY, 17 July 2019
• One gravestone of a child — once marked by a stone lamb on top — was smashed in the road, leaving behind only the lamb.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
• The names on the single gravestone are Wilhelm and Rosa Krochmalnik, with two death dates, nine months apart in 1921.
  — Jessica Hornik, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
• Some of the gravestones are so old that the words on them are difficult to decipher.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 27 Nov. 2019
• Michael scans the gravestones on the hillside before getting out, making sure he’s in the right place.
  — Dan Horn, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2017

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024