(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?
Tombstone
Definition:
(n.) A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.
Example Sentences:
(1) This supports the hypothesis that glial nodules unassociated with Toxoplasma tachyzoites may represent the tombstone of a Toxoplasma cyst.
(2) It's not hard to picture her, dodging the autograph-hunters, wisecracking at the tombstones, seizing life while she can.
(3) Might a leg, or an arm or a finger be sticking out from under Gaskell's smiling tombstone?
(4) The garment is emblazoned with a tombstone on which "Thatcher" is etched, with the slogan below reading "A generation of trade unionists will dance on Thatcher's grave."
(5) But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
(6) If he dies there, what should be engraved on his tombstone?
(7) I went to ask the local priest, who said they had taken the tombstones and crushed them for building materials or something like that.
(8) "I've told my comrade Trevor [Manuel, the planning minister], in my will, I leave very clear instructions when I pass, my obituary or tombstone – if anybody believes I deserve a tombstone – should say: 'Others made suggestions and he implemented.'"
(9) Some are inspirational, such as the grave of Philip Gould , the Labour strategist, who wanted his tombstone to be a gathering place where the living could meet and even commune with the dead.
(10) That three-word phrase, expressing a sincere hope that the dead will find peace in the afterlife, is a fitting inscription for a tombstone, and now a very popular hashtag on social media.
(11) Mandelson held up a Tory campaign poster featuring a tombstone, which attacked Labour's social care plan for the elderly, adding: "And by the way, don't give us any lectures about frightening, scaremongering advertisements.
(12) His film roles to date include starring alongside Liam Neeson in action movie A Walk Among the Tombstones and family adventure film Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.
(13) He spoke of “rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape”, the workers who had been “forgotten” and “left behind”, and promised they would be forgotten no more.
(14) Four men developed silicosis after sandblasting tombstones for an average of 35 months; 3 of them died an average of 59 months after their first exposure to sandblasting.
(15) A few days earlier I had spoken to Carmen Mercer, the group's vice president, who "started securing the border with a handful of patriotic Americans" in her home town of Tombstone.
(16) Allende equally jokily chimed in: "Young man, do you know what's going to be on my tombstone?"
(17) Hayes is a founder of the Cornerstone – dubbed Tombstone – group of socially conservative Tories which gave Cameron a significant boost in the 2005 leadership contest after backing him when he agreed to pull his party out of the centre-right EPP grouping in the European parliament.
(18) The television adverts had made it plain: the sexually active among us were headed for an early grave under a towering tombstone marked by those four letters.
(19) This came too late,” said Smajlovic, who lives alone in her home overlooking 7,000 white tombstones where the victims were buried.
(20) I find it eventually – there is a tableau vivant of tombstones and a pair of people dressed as Burma's president Thein Sein and David Cameron with outsize papier-mâché heads – but I'm distracted from stories of potential genocide by the activities of Stonewall and the London Gay Chorus who are also protesting, just yards away.