Thesaurus results for GRAVEYARD

graveyard

noun

ˈgrāv-ˌyärd

as in cemetery

a piece of land used for burying the dead reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone

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Recent Examples of graveyard That whole area is so steeped in history, from the Marshalsea Prison, where Charles Dickens's father was kept, to this amazing little graveyard just about a three-minute walk away. —

Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2024 He’s turned a Power 4 coaching graveyard into a garden, risen a zombie football program back from the dead in a blink. —

Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 19 Nov. 2024 Essex, 44, had added floating ghosts to the display that hovered over the moody graveyard, without using special effects. —

Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024 By the middle of summer, however, the genre had demonstrated a Voorhees-like ability to resurrect itself from the cinematic graveyard, delivering a run of surprising hits. —

Chris Lee, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for graveyard