Sentence examples for headstone up from inspiring English sources
"The only thing I can say is that his mum and dad put his name on that headstone up there and it's going to happen and that's a real sense of accomplishment for all of us.
Gerald Hass, president of the association that runs both cemeteries, could not explain how Mr. Kartman's old headstone wound up in College Point.
Joe DiMaggio is at Holy Cross, where his dark marble headstone this week propped up a couple of bats and two baseballs left there by fans.
After a permanent headstone was put up in March 1925, his family received a photograph of his grave.
The grass around the base of his headstone had grown up a little bit, so I knelt down and started pulling some of the longer pieces out, to make it easier to see the inscription.
During that time, visitors will be allowed to spruce up headstones and markers using hand tools, and leave commemorative items, according to the court order released by the attorney overseeing the cemetery's restoration, Paul Ayers.
A headstone can't sum up a life, but it can offer a glimpse of a personality, for better or worse.
Frayn's father, a self-made salesman, emerges as a distant, inscrutable character — a man who was overcome by grief at the death of his wife and yet failed to put up a headstone at her grave.
Mrs Gallagher-Smith's husband was cremated and she cannot afford a plot at a garden of remembrance and a headstone but is saving up.
I tidied up the headstones and placed pot plants.
Occupying British soldiers built a fort there and ripped up the headstones to make ovens.
