How to Use cemetery in a Sentence
cemetery
noun-
Included in the film is a scene that shows the real-life orphan cemetery where there are no names on many graves.
— Liza Foreman, Variety, 19 Nov. 2022 -
Take a ghost tour or visit one of New Orleans' famous cemeteries.
— Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024 -
Police went to the cemetery Nov. 27 about a man who was threatening to harm himself.
— cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022 -
Mary Kate is buried in a children's cemetery in Indianapolis just minutes from a river house the Kellys own.
— The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2022 -
But the cemetery chapel will be available for funerals, special events and anyone wanting to see the memorial and and historical exhibits.
— Peter Smith, ajc, 17 Nov. 2022 -
When industry encroached at the turn of the century, the cemetery and its 360 graves were moved to East L.A.
— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022 -
There are other cemeteries in other oceans, but the South Pacific is Forest Lawn.
— Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024 -
As the first two responding officers took shelter behind their police car during the gunfight, one was shot in the arm and Pierce fled into the cemetery, the video shows.
— Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2024 -
Lies explained that the field was Milwaukee's first potter's field ― a cemetery for poor, unclaimed and unknown people ― and was in use through the mid-1800s.
— Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2024 -
After the funeral Mass, the officers played a funeral march, leading a procession to the village cemetery, followed by the hearse and many mourners.
— Arkansas Online, 20 Nov. 2022 -
Harris’ remains then were escorted to the cemetery by motorcade flanked by Patriot Guard Riders.
— Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022 -
There was a stream and then a cemetery up to the right.
— Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024 -
The group has been working since 2020 on the cemetery’s plans.
— Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023 -
To this day, there’s no stone that marks where he’s buried in the cemetery.
— Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024 -
The cemetery is not far from a sign that was installed in 2018.
— Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 13 May 2023 -
Someday, your child will want to go with Mom to the cemetery.
— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023 -
His headstone now sits perched at the cemetery next to the grave of his father.
— Story, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023 -
The stories from there are the darkest: 36 dead, now buried in a field, too many for the cemetery.
— Catherine Porter, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023 -
In any case, Lyons told me the cemetery is open only to Jews.
— Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023 -
There is no more room in the cemeteries in the city center.
— Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023 -
The cemetery was located near the city of Aswan, about 550 miles south of Cairo.
— Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024 -
The monastery also has a cemetery where its nuns can be buried.
— Shelia Poole, ajc, 15 Feb. 2023 -
He was pulled over by Deputy Steven Calkins near a Naples cemetery.
— USA Today, 4 Apr. 2023 -
Price died in 1807 and was buried near the church in a family cemetery.
— Joe Heim, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023 -
Some have paid to have a pet interred in the Angel’s Rest cemetery.
— Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023 -
Smalls has started a nonprofit for the building and the cemetery down the road.
— Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023 -
Still, the steel bollards stacked near the cemetery were an ominous sign.
— J. David Goodman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023 -
Le Thi Vinh points to the name of her father on a wall in a cemetery in Quang Tri province.
— George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022 -
The cemetery is just across the road from Warner Bros Studios, where Friends was filmed.
— Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 25 July 2024 -
In summer the cemetery smells of cut grass under a high sun, and the leaves of that big tree whisper in the stillness.
— Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
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