11 examples of headboard in sentences

This I buried with him, and staked the grave with a headboard.

The swamper he buried by the way with stones upon him to keep the coyotes from digging him up, and seven years later I read the penciled lines on the pine headboard, still bright and unweathered.

Then all the little graves in the Campo Santo are brave with tapers, the brown pine headboards blossom like Aaron's rod with paper roses and bright cheap prints of Our Lady of Sorrows.

On Memorial Day the graves have garlands and new pictures of the saints tacked to the headboards.

A grape-vine, I suppose, trained over the headboard of your bed.

A large log was rolled up at the back side for a headboard, and two or three moose-hides were spread on the ground with the hair up.

For about ten minutes I heard no further disturbance, and was concluding myself to be in some undefined manner the victim of my own imagination, when there suddenly fell upon the headboard of my bed a blow so distinct and loud that I involuntarily sprang at the sound of it.

I examined the wall; I examined the floor; I examined the headboard; I made Alison get up, so that I could shake the mattresses.

One wire ran upstairs to the Over-General's sleeping quarters and ended, so we were told, in a receiver that hung upon the headboard of his bed.

I stood by your father's grave and read his name writ on the headboard, and come to tell you that he was buried in a long grave near his own camp in the mountains.

The bed, to begin with, was a massive, towering edifice with a headboard that scraped the lofty ceiling.

11 examples of  headboard  in sentences