What is "tombstones"

Usage examples of "tombstones".

Scrub pines, rusty ironwork, a maze of tumble-down tombstones with inscriptions that only the thistles and wild oats could read.

The abandoned little graveyard with its slanting overgrown tombstones and stunted scrub pines was pretty, romantic, enchanting, she thought.

Most of the tombstones were of black Swedish granite or diorite, rough hewn on the back and sides and polished in front.

Vercingetorix makes it across the goads, the lilies and the tombstones before we beat those attacking on the outside.

Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat tombstones, thruffsteans or through-stones, as they call them in Whitby vernacular, actually project over where the sustaining cliff has fallen away, it disappeared in the darkness, which seemed intensified just beyond the focus of the searchlight.

Rounding the big yew tree she came upon an elderly clergyman who was stooping over a row of old tombstones near a wall behind the church.

Tuppence went over the stile into the churchyard, peaceful in the evening sun, and began to examine the tombstones as she had promised.

And I kept going--past drunkenly postured tombstones and unmarked grassy mounds, almost running as I reached the lich-gate.

Ben, but as we stepped onto the gravel path, three teenagers, lurking behind tombstones, came scam-pering up, laughing and pelting us with confetti.