graveyard
noun
grave·yard
ˈgrāv-ˌyärd 
1
: cemetery
2
: something resembling a graveyard
an automobile graveyard
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Examples of graveyard in a Sentence
reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone
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Mountain ranges are graveyards of ghost areas, abandoned by skittish investors or undone by the fickleness of weather gods.
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John Branch, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Most of the graveyard’s shipwrecks concentrated where the powerful Columbia River feeds into the Pacific, further south than the Valencia's resting place.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
Skeleton Crew would be a great place to start that, and yet barring some miracle, it’s headed to the Disney Plus graveyard like so many other shows before it.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
In the inner and outer fortress, a mix of all three types of graves dot the area; there’s no defined graveyard to separate the dwellings of the dead from those of the living.
—Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
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John Branch, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Most of the graveyard’s shipwrecks concentrated where the powerful Columbia River feeds into the Pacific, further south than the Valencia's resting place.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
Skeleton Crew would be a great place to start that, and yet barring some miracle, it’s headed to the Disney Plus graveyard like so many other shows before it.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
In the inner and outer fortress, a mix of all three types of graves dot the area; there’s no defined graveyard to separate the dwellings of the dead from those of the living.
—Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Graveyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graveyard. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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