Example sentences for: tombstones

How can you use “tombstones” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Watch where you walk, as the cloister is paved with tombstones, badly worn, but many still bearing the emblems of the bootmakers, tailors, and other craft guilds whose wealth helped pay for the cathedral.

  • The museum also contains an eclectic mix of stone sculptures, including some Roman tombstones, several Arab votive inscriptions, and medieval tomb carvings.

  • The marble that Michelangelo chose for his Moses and Pietà is now hewn, at $3,000 a cubic meter, for replicas at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, tombstones in the Los Angeles Forest Lawn cemetery, and countless homes of oil-rich sheiks.

  • However, the outstanding feature is the “archaeological garden,” an outdoor display of relics from some of the oldest places on the island — tombstones, pieces taken from important buildings, and two splendid early-16th-century stone Manueline windows (pick up the Quinta’s own leaflet for information on these).

  • Commemorative tombstones cover the floor, including that of Saskia, Rembrandt’s wife.


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