How to Use tombstone in a Sentence

tombstone

noun

• This year, 80 couples will have tied the knot among the tombstones.
  — CBS News, 29 Oct. 2017
• Most tombstones are a single concrete block – the same used to build the walls of the grave.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
• Most of the graveyard’s 25 tombstones bear the names of Parton’s.
  — Amy McRary, The Seattle Times, 23 Dec. 2017
• Her name was etched on the tombstone, next to their father’s.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• But what if Halloween is at hand and the signs are shaped like tombstones?
  — Randy Maniloff, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
• The tombstone backs up to the fence on Pine Street, near Paso Hondo.
  — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 21 Mar. 2020
• Let the stage be your stepping stone, not your tombstone.
  — Quinci Legardye, ELLE, 14 June 2022
• Bury me in this look and have Gerber name-checked on my tombstone.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2017
• The egg white represents the tombstone, the yolk is the life and the red dye represents the blood of Jesus.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 10 Apr. 2023
• Even his tombstone repeats a lie; he wasn’t born in 1895.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 31 Jan. 2018
• Use these tombstone templates and cut out the designs with a craft knife.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2023
• The kids questioned why the African Americans didn’t have tombstones or names on the map.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2019
• Many of the tombstones in the historic cemetery bear dates from the 1800s, but now many are broken, tipped over and trashed.
  — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2023
• The tombstone would not be completed for more than a decade.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2021
• The Girl Scout signed up to place wreaths on the tombstones of deceased veterans.
  — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2017
• The only thing that stood were the chimneys, were the fireplaces, that to me looked like tombstones in a graveyard.
  — Wired, 5 Sep. 2019
• On a full moon, blood may be seen dripping down her tombstone.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
• What better way to spend Halloween than among the tombstones of The Spectral City?
  — CBS News, 29 Oct. 2017
• His tombstone provides the basics: name, state, rank, squadron, war, dates of birth and death.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2022
• The ominous clip features Slim Shady’s tombstone on a rainy night.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 10 July 2024
• This painting, so like a weathered tombstone, is not hard to see but is very hard to read.
  — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• Palace led a fundraising effort to erect a tombstone for Siegert.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
• The grassy area just above the attraction’s exit once held more than a dozen tombstones, but most were moved to the main queue in 1993.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 24 May 2018
• Moss shall cover your tombstone, and as the sun rises, green shall spread over all, in all its shades and hues.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• There’s a tiny fly that’s flitting around the corner of a marble tombstone in one of the scene’s cutaway shots.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2021
• The hole cut in the plastic barrier could be construed to suggest the shape of a tombstone.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 26 Dec. 2020
• Baubles could be a slice of pizza or a small tombstone to be dropped on the map that don’t serve any other purpose in the game.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021
• Each tombstone’s death date was within a few weeks of each other in the early 1900s.
  — Megan Ranney, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
• Put tombstones in flowerbeds, hang spiders from windows, or add a spooky wreath.
  — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2024
• The nearby cemetery is full of tombstones for young men who recently died; the previous year, a young man had been found ripped apart in the forest.
  — Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024