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- noun Plural form of
gravestone .
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Examples
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November's Day of the Dead commemoration amongst the decorated gravestones is luminously captured in the photo "Mountain Light" (Galen Rowell).
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November's Day of the Dead commemoration amongst the decorated gravestones is luminously captured in the photo "Mountain Light" (Galen Rowell).
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Or that the building was surrounded by a large cemetery with 100,000 gravestones on 60 acres.
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At the outset of the novel, Pip is in a cemetery, staring at the gravestones of his mother and father.
Arnold Weinstein's "Morning, Noon, and Night," on literature's lifelong effects Post 2011
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But if the proximity to gravestones is a drawback for some people, it can be a selling point for others says Keith Norwalk, president of Indianapolis' Crown Hill Funeral Home and Cemetery.
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I looked at the gravestones, some covered with fresh-laid flowers, others less attended.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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This is an old coffin repository, and there are reminders of its former use everywhere: gravestones propped against walls, a coffin slot and the bones of 557 people underfoot.
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At the outset of the novel, Pip is in a cemetery, staring at the gravestones of his mother and father.
Arnold Weinstein's "Morning, Noon, and Night," on literature's lifelong effects Post 2011
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Marion's had decades to study the scripture on the old Riker gravestones.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Grave New Widow Nancy Ruhling 2011
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The twisters toppled all but 10 of the cemetery's 60 gravestones.
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