The word "gravestone" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a type of marker commonly placed at a gravesite. Example sentence: The gravestone had been worn down by the years of inclement weather.
Anna scribbled a note and left it on the gravestone.
When they come to make his gravestone, they will know what to put on it: "Well, nobody's perfect".
She was surprised to see fresh flowers had been laid on her grandparents' gravestone.
One gravestone is shaped like a desktop computer.
Nobody in his right mind would these days prefer a handful of crumpled roubles to a teapot, eiderdown or even a gravestone.
In the autumn of 2008 Sequoia Capital, a big venture-capital firm, produced a presentation for the companies in which it had invested that included a slide with a picture of a gravestone.
SURVEYING the pathetic stump of a gravestone in the tiny British cemetery in Miranshah, Susan Farrington noticed its similarity to another broken lump amid the rubble.
Like the gravestone, it assumes that the last two digits are prefigured by "19", which means the certificate matures in 1902.
"She had no fault," reads a gravestone placed by a British officer for his wife, in the Murree Hills above Rawalpindi, "Save that she left me .These were ordinary Britons, as all the British war dead were, albeit that they lived in violent times.
On February 9th the Tories attacked what they say are his plans to pay for it: their posters show a gravestone on which are chiselled the words "R.I.P. OFF" accompanied by the claim "Now Gordon wants £20,000 when you die".
So too the shards of a Serb gravestone, its Orthodox symbols blown apart by machinegun fire.
