(n.) A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the gravestone of this debate has Libya marked on it.
(2) What more proof could I show my children of their belonging, their rootedness here than their family name on a gravestone?
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Another participant in the show is Brian Andrew Whiteley with The Legacy Stone, also known as the Trump gravestone that mysteriously appeared one day in March in Central Park .
(4) We’ve just had the gravestone removed because it’s been rather badly defaced one way and another with people chipping away at it.” I tell Gabrielle that I once interviewed Oscar Wilde’s grandson , who was pleading with admirers not to cover his grandfather’s tomb in Père Lachaise, Paris, with lipstick kisses because it was damaging the stone.
(5) He was shocked to the core when Savile's family announced that they would remove the disgraced DJ's gravestone in Scarborough "out of respect for public opinion".
(6) Teach-ins were held to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership and sad clowns performed in a theater performance surrounded by gravestones for “justice”, “democracy” and “truth”.
(7) Jail Corbett and send Barker's gravestone to landfill.
(8) Evidences of this exceptional event are notations in the birth and death registers of the town parish church in Lommatzsch, a letter reporting on the "unusual event" to the elector Johann Georg III (1600-1691) and the so-called five-children gravestone.
(9) But there are no gravestones, there are no markers.
(10) Fay says it has been very hard for her and her siblings to not have a focus for their grief and "perhaps the drawings are the gravestones, where I can lay the flowers".
(11) Meanwhile, 15 gravestones in a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem were vandalised, with "death to Arabs" painted across them in what was thought to be a "price tag" attack by Jewish extremists.
(12) Coming unexpectedly across a work by Gill - a carved font in a rarely opened church, a gravestone in a rural cemetery, moss creeping in between the precision-cut Gill letters - is an odd and hauntingly intense experience.
(13) Asked in 1999 what she would like to see written on her gravestone, Taylor replied: "Here lies Elizabeth.
(14) From her bedroom window, she can see the gravestone of her baby daughter, who died soon after being after being born, not long after they moved in.
(15) Every major political party is now complicit in fees and privatisation in universities, and if there was only one impact of the growth of the student movement in the past few years, it has been that your betrayal of education and your fire sale of public services will be written on your political gravestone in 2015.
(16) Indeed, the last Labour election effort featured an unlikely puppet character called Ed, who wrote his thoughts in big letters on a semi-portable gravestone .
(17) He had already published a book about churchyard gravestones, A Fine and Private Place (with Joan Bakewell, 1977), and an entertaining account of his quest for Diaghilev, Speaking of Diaghilev (1997), based on the earlier documentary.
(18) But Ball insisted the pair had laughed it off, saying: “He [Cook] has always said he wants his gravestone to read: ‘Norman was a very patient man.’ And that sums it up really.” After the picture emerged, she said they had a “good understanding of each other” and said the reasons they met and fell in love initially were still there.
(19) We had paparazzi clambering over gravestones while we were filming the funeral.
(20) Will bungling or beastly be chiselled first on this government's gravestone?
Headstone
Definition:
(n.) The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.
(n.) The stone at the head of a grave.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
(2) Today there is only the headstone, inscribed with an Islamic star and crescent, standing among dozens of Christian crosses of other veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in the cemetery’s section 60, the plot called “the saddest acre in America”.
(3) His grave lies in Arlington national cemetery , where silent rows of headstones on rolling hills mark the final resting place for more than 400,000 service members, veterans and their families stretching back to the civil war.
(4) Before 2008, she and her husband ran a 100-year-old family business making headstones.
(5) Photograph: Andrew Fox Harkamel Sahota used her second loan from My Home Finance to cover part of the cost of her son's headstone.
(6) When discretionary costs such as probate, headstones and flowers are added, the total cost of dying has risen faster than inflation and now stands at £7,622 – an increase of 7.1% on 2012.
(7) Israel is waiting for you with open arms.” But the French prime minister, Manuel Valls – who was speaking after several hundred Jewish headstones were vandalised at a cemetery in eastern France – said that he regretted Netanyahu’s call, noting that the Israeli prime minister was “in the midst of a general election campaign”.
(8) Casestudy: The single mother who borrowed for her baby's headstone Harkamel Sahota applying for a loan.
(9) I wish I’d spent more time at the office” are words few would carve on their headstones • Andrew Simms is author of Cancel The Apocalypse: The New Path To Prosperity, published by Little Brown at £13.99 on 28 February.
(10) Thousands of precisely trimmed rose and rosemary bushes, plaques and headstones are set in an ocean of lawn, surrounding a constantly exhaling redbrick crematorium.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Headstones on the graves of children who died from the Ebola virus at a cemetery for victims in Waterloo, south of the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown.
(12) But Jackamoe Buzzell, a fan of the show who organised the event, complete with real headstone and a fleet of black limousines, was undeterred.
(13) "Each one of them deserves a headstone with his name on it," she said.
(14) Harry Collett got so tired of being asked the same question that he had a stonemason make up a false headstone – and had it placed at a suitable location on his walk.
(15) The Telegraph opted for the most funereal of all front pages choosing a headstone-style front page with a full length photograph of Thatcher on a black background and the simple headline "Margaret Thatcher 1925-2013".
(16) The names on the headstones were written in chalk and some had been washed away.
(17) A headstone in the flooded graveyard in Moorland, Somerset.
(18) The headstone is as humble as Maclean's – intentionally humble ("He trusted in God and tried to do the right") with a bronze plaque nearby advertising its humility by pointing out that it no way differs from the hundreds of thousands of other headstones "placed in many lands over his comrades who fell in the Great War".
(19) Her father is buried nearby; white butterflies flutter among the Islamic headstones; a light breeze blows.
(20) Fresh flowers appeared this week at the simple marble headstone of Humayun Khan, an American Muslim killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004.