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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