Gravestones is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gravestones meaning
plural of gravestone
Using Gravestones
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of gravestone
- In the example corpus, gravestones often appears in combinations such as: the gravestones, gravestones of, gravestones that.
Context around Gravestones
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gravestones
- In this selection, "gravestones" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ones, old, early, fail, placed and ghosts stand out and add context to how "gravestones" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include between the gravestones and by old gravestones which have. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gravestones" sits close to words such as abra, accies and accommodative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gravestones
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hahn discovered that there were indeed some gravestones that lacked names. (11 words)
It’s a strange cinematic technology that involves corpses and gravestones. (11 words)
Just one of the gravestones that were damaged in Portlaoise Cemetery recently. (12 words)
WDC’s neighbourhood services spokesperson Coun Will Roberts said: “We are shocked and saddened to see such mindless vandalism in the cemetery and we are doing all we can to preserve and make safe the damaged gravestones, which will cost just under £4,000. (44 words)
The right-hand entrance is also pedestrian and provides access into the side entrance porch and also the garden area which is partially laid to grass and partly covered by old gravestones which have been moved into their current position and laid flat. (43 words)
I thought we recall the name but do not put down the written feelings or what regiment or where they worked at so I thought let’s write down some of these words or phrases on some of these gravestones. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
A lifetime’s most impressive monument—even if gravestones fail to report it—is its legacy among the living.
Hahn discovered that there were indeed some gravestones that lacked names.
Many were upset to see the yellow tags on their loved ones' gravestones, many of which aren't even wobbly, with one only being erected last year.
One of the gravestones in the cemetery displays Saturday's date, but in the year 1842 when the woman buried there may have been enslaved.
The right-hand entrance is also pedestrian and provides access into the side entrance porch and also the garden area which is partially laid to grass and partly covered by old gravestones which have been moved into their current position and laid flat.
He recounted: "As we stood facing into the graveyard, the smell was at its most powerful, and it was then that we both saw something in the distance moving between the gravestones.
I grew up in Resolis where my mother, a local teacher, began to record some extraordinary early gravestones at Old Cullicudden.
I thought we recall the name but do not put down the written feelings or what regiment or where they worked at so I thought let’s write down some of these words or phrases on some of these gravestones.
It’s a strange cinematic technology that involves corpses and gravestones.
Just one of the gravestones that were damaged in Portlaoise Cemetery recently.
Meller and the fourth-graders walked between gravestones, placed trash in plastic grocery bags and straightened out flower displays.
Seven gravestones at Roskeen Cemetery were covered with graffiti on the morning of Friday, July 12.
Some opt for costumes, cosplay or fancy dress that can be worn while trick or treating, others build lavish displays with gravestones, ghosts, ghouls and goblins in the front yard.
WDC’s neighbourhood services spokesperson Coun Will Roberts said: “We are shocked and saddened to see such mindless vandalism in the cemetery and we are doing all we can to preserve and make safe the damaged gravestones, which will cost just under £4,000.
Among those helping out on Saturday was veteran Raoul Goulet, who has led the effort to place flags on veterans’ gravestones at St. Joseph Cemetery for Memorial Day for 19 years.
Basically, if people would put small billboards for on gravestones of love ones, then Acclaim would pay them for it.
By mid-20th centuries, dogs and other pets began to be treated as members of the family, as inscriptions on their gravestones suggest that ‘Mummy’, ‘Dad’, ‘Nan’ or ‘Auntie’ were mourning them.
The campaign signs dotting the streets in our neighborhoods are strewn in with gravestones and mock murder scenes and skeletons that this year feel a little more personal, having had death hang like a cloud over this year.
The gravestones of three fishermen of Arran, who died more than 150 years ago, have been found in a quiet cemetery in Northern Ireland.
While death might not have been the goal of the marches, that was indeed the fate of many, as the scattered gravestones that remain along these roads today attest.
Common combinations with gravestones
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the gravestones 6×
- gravestones of 4×
- gravestones that 3×
- gravestones at 3×
- gravestones and 3×
- gravestones which 2×
- with gravestones 2×