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How to use the word Tombstone in a Sentence?

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Virgil Earp was the constable back before Virgil Earp brothers got here — Wyatt and Morgan — and Virgil Earp actually killed a cowboy out in front of the Palace, doc Holiday( played) cards here before they went to Tombstone.

– Dave Michelson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What I try to point out is … it’s not how big your bank account balance is -- nobody ever puts that in their draft obituary -- or that they billed the most hours, or that they won the most cases. It’s how they treated other people along the way, for me, [ I think of the ] the words I read [ just ] yesterday from Increase Sumner’s tombstone. I ’d like to be remembered as a good dad, a good husband, kind and mild in private life, dignified and firm in public life... I have no illusions that I ’ll be remembered for very long.

– Judge Gorsuch

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The measures will be a tombstone for growth prospects.

– Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

...and what will it say on my tombstone, do you think? 'Cal, was once a nuisance, but everyone got to hear about it'...

– Storm Constantine

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: He kept down the cost and set the type right.

– Gregory Nunn

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

– Virginia Woolf

added by anonymous
10 years ago

And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

– Rudyard Kipling

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

– John Christian Bovee

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

– Harry S Truman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

– Harry S Truman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

– Dorothy Parker

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass

– Lewis Mumford

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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