gravestone
Americannoun
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gravestones
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gravestone
A Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225; see origin at grave 1, stone
Example Sentences
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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
“We’re now left with a gravestone that’s in multiple pieces,” she added.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
It was a gravestone beside an old craggy sycamore tree.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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
If you’re looking to go big on your decor, skeletons, gravestones and inflatables are perfect to transform your home into a real-life haunted house.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
But when I go to these cemeteries and take pictures of the gravestones, I’m not usually scared.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
More recently, he attracted criticism for hanging a "Darren Rodwell for Barking" banner on some gravestones.
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
In Hope, as they say on the gravestones.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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