How to Use tombstone in a Sentence

tombstone

noun
Definition of tombstonenext
Synonyms for tombstonenext
  • 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.
    — Richard Galant, CNN, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Each tombstone’s death date was within a few weeks of each other in the early 1900s.
    — Megan Ranney, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The closing image shows Fox Solomon with her eyes closed, contentedly resting her arms and her head along the top of a tombstone with her surname on it.
    — Christina Cacouris, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024

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