resting place

noun

: a place where people can stop and rest

We found a good resting place by the side of the trail.

: a place where someone is buried

her final/last resting place

: a place where something has been put

The monument was moved to a new resting place.

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In Horowitz’s view, the book still had not found its resting place. —

Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024 Canada’s national parks service and the Inuit communities found the final resting place of the HMS Erebus in 2014 and the HMS Terror in 2016. —

Katie Hunt, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024 The tattoo moment might have also crystallized the moment when everyone agreed Benjamin Keough needed to find a final resting place outside the home. —

David K. Li, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024 Members who were interred outside the kibbutz have been brought to a final resting place inside Be’eri. —

Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for resting place

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