churchyard

Examples of churchyard in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In Ham, after the trespass, the group stopped in a churchyard for lunch, where more thermoses of tea emerged from backpacks. Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023 Last summer, O’Farrell presided over a ceremony for the planting of a pair of trees in the churchyard — one commemorating Hamnet, the other Judith. Andrew Dickson, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023 His company has now taken on the task of mapping every churchyard and municipal burial ground in England—a total of more than 18,000—to create a Google Street View of graveyards in which descendants, genealogists, and conservationists can click on a map and see who was buried there and when. WIRED, 25 Nov. 2022 At one point, the thieves threatened to burn the painting unless their demands were met, but unlike The Concert, The Guitar Player was safely recovered with the help of an anonymous tip: a detective found the canvas, wrapped in newspaper, propped up against an old headstone in a London churchyard. Ruth Bernard Yeazell, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021 See all Example Sentences for churchyard 

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“Churchyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churchyard. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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