Explore Headstones through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Headstones meaning
plural of headstone
Using Headstones
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of headstone
- In the example corpus, headstones often appears in combinations such as: the headstones, headstones at, headstones and.
Context around Headstones
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Headstones
- In this selection, "headstones" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cleaning, individual, members, says, bus and evidence stand out and add context to how "headstones" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 million headstones commemorating service and against individual headstones. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "headstones" sits close to words such as absolve, acceptability and acetic, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with headstones
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The town is gone, but headstones remain. (7 words)
The top portions of both headstones had broken off. (9 words)
A swastika was into several headstones in a cemetery. (9 words)
For non-military friends and family members' headstones, says that a penny means you're paying your respect, a nickel means you went to school together, a dime means you worked together, and a quarter means you were with them when they passed away. (44 words)
Morrison’s first one-on-one encounter with the legendary Canadian rocker occurred in the parking lot after a show at Casino Regina on Nov. 25. Morrison just happened to be walking past the Headstones’ bus when Dillon stepped out. (40 words)
At some point, the headstones were removed and, in the 1960s, the Cypress Golf Course, also owned by Cypress Abbey, expanded across the graves of the indigent dead still buried there. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
A Coquet Valley resident set up a business after she had been cleaning headstones and restoring old photos as a hobby for over a year.
A Labour activist posted pictures over the weekend of a banner with the slogan 'Darren Rodwell for Barking' being tied to headstones in the grounds of Barking Abbey.
As examples, I noticed healthy young Douglas firs, pepperwoods and live oaks growing next to and against individual headstones.
For non-military friends and family members' headstones, says that a penny means you're paying your respect, a nickel means you went to school together, a dime means you worked together, and a quarter means you were with them when they passed away.
Headstones at an Inverness cemetery have suffered yet another act of vandalism earlier this week.
He has pictures of a few stones that are possibly headstones from the cemetery.
Morrison’s first one-on-one encounter with the legendary Canadian rocker occurred in the parking lot after a show at Casino Regina on Nov. 25. Morrison just happened to be walking past the Headstones’ bus when Dillon stepped out.
The only difference between both graveyards is that one is full of headstones and surrounds, while the other is not.
The top portions of both headstones had broken off.
Unfinished, the five graves bore no headstones, evidence of a loss too great for one family.
When I became a reporter, I confirmed with the local VFW that the headstones belonged to Black Union soldiers.
American Flags are placed near headstones at the Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown.
At some point, the headstones were removed and, in the 1960s, the Cypress Golf Course, also owned by Cypress Abbey, expanded across the graves of the indigent dead still buried there.
Their grave site at an Archdiocese of Miami cemetery remains a patch of grass of unmarked graves, and he wants to place headstones.
The municipality also wants to remove around 90 headstones, at the Tehumardi memorial, on the grounds that they bear a Soviet-era five-pointed star.
The town is gone, but headstones remain.
They maintain 1.1 million headstones, commemorating service men who lost their lives as young as 14 and as old as 91.
You’ll want to make sure to join this event to get yourself a limited edition “Concordia Cemetery” t-shirt which features the iconic Franklin Mountains and the Concordia cemetery headstones.
A bipartisan group of representatives called on the Department of Veterans Affairs to replace or alter three headstones at two cemeteries featuring swastikas or pro-Nazi messages.
A swastika was into several headstones in a cemetery.
Common combinations with headstones
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the headstones 16×
- headstones at 8×
- headstones and 4×
- headstones in 3×
- headstones were 3×
- to headstones 2×
- of headstones 2×
- toppled headstones 2×
- headstones as 2×
- headstones of 2×