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 museum embraces the town’s unique role as a final home after one’s life, showcasing everything from early-20th-century embalming equipment to the tombstones of 19th-century San Francisco residents — once sold in a Santa Cruz consignment shop and advertised as Halloween decorations.
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Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
Scott transforms her front yard at 1728 Hanson Lane into a theater of tombstones, complete with scores of skeletons, plenty of pumpkins and a generous sprinkling of ghosts.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
Tuck Milano cookies into cake, spaced apart like tombstones in a graveyard.
—Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
Then, use a box cutter or saw to cut the foam into tombstone shapes.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
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Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
Scott transforms her front yard at 1728 Hanson Lane into a theater of tombstones, complete with scores of skeletons, plenty of pumpkins and a generous sprinkling of ghosts.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
Tuck Milano cookies into cake, spaced apart like tombstones in a graveyard.
—Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
Then, use a box cutter or saw to cut the foam into tombstone shapes.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Tombstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tombstone. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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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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