How to Use graveyard in a Sentence

graveyard

noun
  • Read the list of names of 215 people buried in the graveyard.
    Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • For some characters, the ‘80s were just the graveyard of the ‘60s.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Throw them in a big pile in the challenge graveyard and light the match.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The student is buried out in the distance, in the graveyard next to Mount Carmel.
    Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2021
  • There is a bit of whistling-past-the-graveyard in such reports.
    Greg Petro, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The imagery from the riff-heavy stunner is all there: the T-bird graveyard, the fires, and more badassery.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The graveyard sits on a hill that once was a neighborhood of Agadir.
    Aida Alami, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • On the train to Kyiv, I was struck by how many fresh graveyards lined the railway tracks.
    Jens Stoltenberg, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2023
  • Her bones are said to be buried in the graveyard near a church named in her honor.
    jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • On the day that Charlie was buried, the church and the graveyard were beset by reporters.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The latest search of the graveyard is expected to end by Nov. 18.
    Ken Miller, ajc, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The Senate is the graveyard for the priorities of the House.
    Marisa Schultz, Fox News, 16 Apr. 2021
  • My spouse worked graveyard shifts for many, many years.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Many graves date back to around 1850 when settlers first formed the graveyard.
    Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 5 May 2024
  • Bentsa snapped photographs and helped haul the bodies to a graveyard at the edge of the forest.
    Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The graveyard has more than a thousand missiles, or parts of them.
    Vasilisa Stepanenko, ajc, 23 Dec. 2022
  • As a wave of boulder- and tree-laden mud tore through the chapel, that shelter became a graveyard.
    Mark Saludes, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2022
  • As dogs and their owners rambled through the graveyard, Grace and I walked up the slope behind the crypt and looked to the east.
    Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Matter of fact, I’m being buried in the same graveyard.
    Claudia Dreifus, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2021
  • After the funeral, Roman and Dmytro sat on steps at the edge of the graveyard.
    Megan Specia, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The party features a spooky graveyard, games, prizes, and ice cream.
    Zareen Syed, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The World Trade Center was built on ground that had been a graveyard of slaves, many of whom were Muslim.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The Great Lakes were a massive graveyard for ships lost at sea for centuries.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • This part of Germany was Christian at the time, and all these people were buried in the church’s graveyard.
    science.org, 3 July 2024
  • Afghanistan is not the graveyard of the American empire — far from it.
    Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Visitors could get lost in the vastness of the graveyard’s 500 acres.
    National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The people who used to live in those motels refer to the row of neon replicas as the sign graveyard.
    David Calvert, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Others climb from a coffin, creep in a graveyard, or sit on a porch swing.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
  • His black limestone grave marker was found in the graveyard outside of Jamestown Memorial Church.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
  • But Oz reels him in with a bygones-be-bygones-type dismissal of the whole graveyard incident from the previous episode, plus a $1,000 stack of bills for his trouble.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024

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