How to Use churchyard in a Sentence

churchyard

noun

• He was wrapped in tent canvas and buried in a hasty grave in a churchyard.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• The dead were then buried in the local churchyard or in family plots on the back forty of the farm.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
• She was buried next to her first husband in a churchyard near Chatsworth.
  — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 31 Oct. 2016
• She was buried next to her first husband in a churchyard near Chatsworth.
  — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 31 Oct. 2016
• The lavra’s doors are off their hinges and transoms have buckled; the brick walls of the churchyard bear the cavities of artillery.
  — Ainara Tiefenthäler, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• In Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, bodies wrapped in black plastic were piled on one end of a mass grave in a churchyard.
  — chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• In this Northern Irish churchyard, burial plots line the paths like little marble farms for the dead.
  — Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2019
• Finally, among more than a dozen other fresh graves, the two were buried side by side in the village churchyard on April 12.
  — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• At first officers blocked them in front of the churchyard, but the woman ignored them and forced her way inside.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 May 2018
• In Bucha on Monday, the work of exhuming bodies from a mass grave in a churchyard resumed.
  — Yuras Karmanau, Adam Schreck and Cara Anna, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2022
• Parting obediently to make way, the crowd followed them over the lawn and out onto the winding dirt road that led to the churchyard.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
• Workers are exhuming bodies from a mass grave that was set up in a churchyard.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2022
• Yet there'd be outrage if someone went into a churchyard and starting digging up the dead of 300 years ago.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2011
• Remains of the 16th century town wall, a medieval churchyard and 11 boats were among the finds, which now form the basis of the Medieval Museum.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 13 June 2022
• Not far in the churchyard is the flat stone of Russell Gregory, whose name is remembered in the park’s Gregory’s Bald.
  — Amy McRary, The Seattle Times, 23 Dec. 2017
• When police fired into the churchyard, the crowds ran screaming, video from local media showed.
  — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Everyone in this churchyard succumbs to their baser instincts as the play unfolds.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2017
• Priests could not catechize children, bring the sacraments to the sick, or do pastoral work outside the local churchyard.
  — George Weigel, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• In a touching tribute, their ashes were buried side-by-side in plots at a churchyard in Warsop, Nottinghamshire.
  — Aletha Adu, Fox News, 10 June 2018
• Some, like the Tollund Man, were initially assumed to be murder victims, and many were reburied in churchyards.
  — Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• The church’s large parking lot was full long before the event began, and people parked blocks away and walked to the churchyard, greeting one another with subdued hugs and wide, worried eyes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2022
• A sculptor is suing Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan for moving his bronze re-creation of a huge sycamore tree that once stood in the churchyard.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2017
• Rather than bury their dead in in the parish cemetery, per tradition, at one point in the mid-14th century local residents quickly buried dozens of people at once in a mass grave on the grounds of Thornton Abbey, a mile from the churchyard.
  — Jennifer Pinkowski, National Geographic, 18 Feb. 2020
• After that, a succession of developers bought the churchyard, and some city leaders suspected the bodies were moved.
  — Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 June 2017
• After a journey northwest by train, he was buried in a smaller, more intimate ceremony at St. Martin’s churchyard in Bladon.
  — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
• Their annual performances of Shakespeare, staged in the churchyard of Grace Episcopal, are free and picnic-friendly, and acted by a mix of veteran thespians and first-timers.
  — Washington Post, 17 June 2019
• Thirty-four identical white metal crosses, crooked and misaligned, remain in the churchyard that is more frequently visited by elk, judging from the droppings in the grass, than humans these days.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• According to Church practice, Catholics needed to be buried in sanctified ground, so the solution, employed by similar churchyards across Europe, was simply to reuse the graves.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 Sep. 2017
• DeathLab has proposed suspending the glowing pods from the underside of the Manhattan Bridge, which would serve as a communal space for grief and a kind of geographic memento mori, much in the way a village churchyard once did.
  — Curbed, 6 May 2022
• From Ed Yong: Their paper, based on fieldwork carried out in a local churchyard, describes how bumblebees can learn which flowers to forage from with more flexibility than anyone had thought.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2010

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024