Example sentences for: tombstones

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

  • Epigramming is a form of word play (or thought play) which evolved from epitaphs on tombstones.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • From the cloister, pass to the Capella de Santa Llúcia, a chapel with 13th- and 14th-century tombstones on the floor and a monument to a crusader knight in armor on one wall.


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