Wondering how to use Gravestone in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as headstone or tombstone.
Gravestone meaning
A stone slab set at the head of a grave.
Using Gravestone
- The main meaning on this page is: A stone slab set at the head of a grave.
- Useful related words include: headstone, tombstone, stone, memorial.
- In the example corpus, gravestone often appears in combinations such as: his gravestone, the gravestone, gravestone of.
Context around Gravestone
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gravestone
- In this selection, "gravestone" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, small, personalized, iconic and alongside stand out and add context to how "gravestone" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include on his gravestone and a personalized gravestone alongside a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gravestone" sits close to words such as aas, abaco and abramovich, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gravestone
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The gravestone of artist Walter Sickert. (6 words)
That can't be his permanent gravestone. (7 words)
I am afraid it will be on my gravestone. (9 words)
At the back of the hut facing the Black Lake, there is a small gravestone by itself with a carved Hippogriff on the front, clearly referencing Hagrid's animal companion Buckbeak first seen in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (41 words)
A personalized gravestone, alongside a marker indicating the year that the people died, is seen at a grave for unclaimed county residents at the Los Angeles County Cemetery in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. (40 words)
She said she had a recurring nightmare in which she saw her gravestone with the date 20 October, which then disappears and she hears O’Donoghue’s voice telling her he would bury her where no one would find her. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
And you can go there and see this gravestone where a movie character is ‘buried,'” he said.
At the back of the hut facing the Black Lake, there is a small gravestone by itself with a carved Hippogriff on the front, clearly referencing Hagrid's animal companion Buckbeak first seen in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Englebright, who was in attendance for the civic meeting, said one gravestone is significant as a fiddle is carved into it.
For 15 years after she was discovered by ramblers, she was unidentified and was buried in a churchyard with only the name 'Lady of the Hills' inscribed on her gravestone.
According to Musk via his X account, he has never gone to see a therapist and wants it to be engraved on his gravestone.
A personalized gravestone, alongside a marker indicating the year that the people died, is seen at a grave for unclaimed county residents at the Los Angeles County Cemetery in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023.
Elon Musk revealed the wording he wants to have on his gravestone.
Koudounaris took all of the photos himself, taking a full month shooting the iconic gravestone for Dewey the cat in Massachusetts’ Pine Ridge Cemetery just to get the sunlight right).
Now, after creating historical documents and health and safety documents and with permission from Liverpool Parish Church, Jonathon is beginning to remove the ivy and overgrowth from each gravestone, in partnership with Rice Lane Farm.
The class split up into groups, each of which picked a gravestone.
The gravestone of artist Walter Sickert.
We saw him dying and even his gravestone, but fans are convinced the character could still be alive.
May, who first met Villaseñor in the 1990s, described how she appealed multiple times to state officials to ensure she could have an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on her gravestone in the Texas State Cemetery.
The site also found Heidelberger's 1942 naturalisation record from British Mandatory Palestine and his gravestone alongside his wife Emma in northern Israel.
Get an entire cake decorated with Halloween themes—anything from Frankenstein to a gravestone—to really kick off the holiday in style.
I am afraid it will be on my gravestone.
She said she had a recurring nightmare in which she saw her gravestone with the date 20 October, which then disappears and she hears O’Donoghue’s voice telling her he would bury her where no one would find her.
Some years ago Mrs Venables's name was added to her parents' gravestone at St Michael's church in Rushock, recording her year of death as 1982.
That can't be his permanent gravestone.
The gravestone of John Edward "Ned" Doig at Anfield Cemetery in Liverpool.
Common combinations with gravestone
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his gravestone 13×
- the gravestone 7×
- gravestone of 5×
- her gravestone 4×
- gravestone was 3×
- gravestone is 2×
- simple gravestone 2×
- gravestone alongside 2×
- gravestone in 2×
- my gravestone 2×