gravestone
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of gravestone
A Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225; see origin at grave 1, stone
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Considering his own mortality, while consumed by daily news of death and destruction on the network he founded, Turner mused about what one day might be inscribed on his gravestone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
“People sell those markers, even those little vases you put on them, and melt them down for money,” says Rebecca Meyer, 48, a gravestone conservationist and president of Epoch Preservation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
In the cemetery, Munzanza's mother Florence knelt by his gravestone and wept.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
The peacefulness of Sycamore Gap was "of solace" to them all, so much so the tree was depicted on the young man's gravestone.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
Frost painted the ground the color of a gravestone, ashes trapped in ice.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
A ragtag online group, the “Grave Marker Recovery Team,” hunts down gravestones that have been stolen, typically to sell at antique shows as accents for upscale decorating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
He was told locals of an ancient village near Chepstow had awoken to find more than 50 holes mysteriously dug among the gravestones of their churchyard.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
Guiding everyone is the show’s host and relationship guru Mark L. Walberg, whose disconcertingly white smile doubles as a line of gravestones for all the ailing relationships his show has mercy killed.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025
The sun was beating down on me so hard that I felt like I was about to faint on the gravestones.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
Sometimes, we would take Boomer and walk through the graveyard, searching the mossy gravestones for funny names or making up stories for how the people under them died.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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