How to Use cemetery in a Sentence

cemetery

noun

• Cupp was buried at a cemetery across from a cornfield on March 9.
  — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2024
• In one of the final scenes, the boys force their boss to dig graves for them at a seaside cemetery.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
• On the first and second levels, each bedroom comes with its own private balcony that looks out onto the cemetery and treetops.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2022
• Today’s conversation, however, turned on a friend who had just died and whether the road to the cemetery, rutted by August’s rains, was passable.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• More than a dozen headstones at an Illinois Jewish cemetery were vandalized with swastikas on Monday, police said.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2022
• Back in the antechamber, Anderson decided to buy a commemorative lamb figurine from the gift shop, made out of the wool of sheep that graze in the cemetery every year.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2022
• The vandalism at a Waukegan Jewish cemetery has prompted a quick response from the city and condemnation of the hate crime from the community.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
• The unclaimed cremains of five military veterans have been buried with full honors at a national cemetery in southwestern Michigan.
  — Fox News, 14 Nov. 2022
• The vandalism at the cemetery in the 3000 block of Grand Avenue was discovered Monday morning.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
• There was a stream and then a cemetery up to the right.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• The group has been working since 2020 on the cemetery’s plans.
  — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• To this day, there’s no stone that marks where he’s buried in the cemetery.
  — Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
• The cemetery is not far from a sign that was installed in 2018.
  — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• Someday, your child will want to go with Mom to the cemetery.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• His headstone now sits perched at the cemetery next to the grave of his father.
  — Story, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
• The stories from there are the darkest: 36 dead, now buried in a field, too many for the cemetery.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• In any case, Lyons told me the cemetery is open only to Jews.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
• There is no more room in the cemeteries in the city center.
  — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• The cemetery was located near the city of Aswan, about 550 miles south of Cairo.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
• The monastery also has a cemetery where its nuns can be buried.
  — Shelia Poole, ajc, 15 Feb. 2023
• He was pulled over by Deputy Steven Calkins near a Naples cemetery.
  — USA Today, 4 Apr. 2023
• Price died in 1807 and was buried near the church in a family cemetery.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
• Some have paid to have a pet interred in the Angel’s Rest cemetery.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Smalls has started a nonprofit for the building and the cemetery down the road.
  — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• Still, the steel bollards stacked near the cemetery were an ominous sign.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Le Thi Vinh points to the name of her father on a wall in a cemetery in Quang Tri province.
  — George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
• The cemetery is just across the road from Warner Bros Studios, where Friends was filmed.
  — Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 25 July 2024
• In summer the cemetery smells of cut grass under a high sun, and the leaves of that big tree whisper in the stillness.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Some of these people are buried in a cemetery on the property.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2024
• Across the street from the cemetery is the Monte Santo funeral home, one of two in Aguas Buenas.
  — Zoeann Murphy, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024