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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The metal bones of the two dining tents were laid out across the dirt like an elephant graveyard, then raised.
  — Jeff Winkler, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2020
• By the end, Google Toolbar's share settings were just a huge graveyard.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2021
• Part of it is the history of the 5-12 seed line, which has long been a graveyard for the team with a single digit in front of it.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• Key Largo has a new, disturbing and first-of-its-kind graveyard.
  — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
• After prayers over the body at a mosque, a procession would take it to the graveyard, where it would be laid on its right side facing east, toward Mecca.
  — Julia Frankel and Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
• By October 1, the front yards around our home are fully transformed into graveyards, haunted houses, a witch's lair, or zombie central.
  — Mia Taylor, Parents, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024