Examples of tombstone in a Sentence
the historic cemetery's many tombstones marking the graves of children are telling reminders of the harshness of pioneer life
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The Pontiac Gazette newspaper in Oakland County reported storm damage included apple and peach trees uprooted or twisted, churches destroyed, and cemetery tombstones blown down.
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Paula Wethington, CBS News, 26 May 2026
The veil of past and present, for example, takes an abstract turn in Altar I, while Todos los santos (Para subir al Cielo) shows a cemetery with various cross-shaped tombstones, with a ladder leaning on a wall spectrally overlaid on the image.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 22 May 2026
The exhibition for its Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition is dominated by tombstone labels.
—Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
Workmen are erecting identical marble tombstones.
—ABC News, 25 Apr. 2026
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Paula Wethington, CBS News, 26 May 2026
The veil of past and present, for example, takes an abstract turn in Altar I, while Todos los santos (Para subir al Cielo) shows a cemetery with various cross-shaped tombstones, with a ladder leaning on a wall spectrally overlaid on the image.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 22 May 2026
The exhibition for its Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition is dominated by tombstone labels.
—Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
Workmen are erecting identical marble tombstones.
—ABC News, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Tombstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tombstone. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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tombstone
noun
tomb·stone
ˈtüm-ˌstōn 
Geographical Definition
Tombstone
geographical name
Tomb·stone
ˈtüm-ˌstōn
city in the southeastern corner of Arizona population 1380
Note: Tombstone was site of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1881.
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