How to Use graveyard in a Sentence

graveyard

noun

• Matter of fact, I’m being buried in the same graveyard.
  — Claudia Dreifus, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2021
• Shamim sleeps in a makeshift hut in the graveyard to avoid going home and risk infecting his wife and children.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• The group spent several hours in Riverside Park before driving in a car cruise to the graveyard where he is buried.
  — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 May 2021
• That small graveyard, lined with tall junipers, is a good place to focus on this Memorial Day weekend.
  — Star Tribune, 29 May 2021
• Enquirer archives suggest the graveyard was initially built on Hill's own land.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 31 May 2021
• Shipwreck Beach is a maritime graveyard on the Hawaiian island of Lāna`i.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2024
• Murder House Flip has been resurrected from the streaming graveyard!
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 21 May 2021
• It’s no secret the Senate has taken on a reputation as a legislative graveyard for the bills passed by the more liberal House.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2021
• Colorful flags flapped in the salt air, and in the distance, the smoke of a burning pyre rose up from a graveyard shared by Hindus, Christians, and Muslims.
  — Patrice Grell Yursik, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2021
• Authorities declined to release his body for burial in the family graveyard; the police have said the measure was aimed at avoiding the spread of the coronavirus at large funerals.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2021
• That bipartisan bill is similarly destined for the legislative graveyard.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 20 May 2021
• The fashion-tech graveyard is full of examples, from Will.i.am’s Puls wearable to Vertu, a luxury phone brand that offered white-glove service but so-so tech.
  — Adriana Lee, WWD, 19 Aug. 2024
• Read the list of names of 215 people buried in the graveyard.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2024
• Throw them in a big pile in the challenge graveyard and light the match.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The student is buried out in the distance, in the graveyard next to Mount Carmel.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2021
• The imagery from the riff-heavy stunner is all there: the T-bird graveyard, the fires, and more badassery.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
• The graveyard sits on a hill that once was a neighborhood of Agadir.
  — Aida Alami, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• On the train to Kyiv, I was struck by how many fresh graveyards lined the railway tracks.
  — Jens Stoltenberg, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2023
• Her bones are said to be buried in the graveyard near a church named in her honor.
  — jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• On the day that Charlie was buried, the church and the graveyard were beset by reporters.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• The latest search of the graveyard is expected to end by Nov. 18.
  — Ken Miller, ajc, 26 Oct. 2022
• My spouse worked graveyard shifts for many, many years.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2021
• Many graves date back to around 1850 when settlers first formed the graveyard.
  — Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 5 May 2024
• Bentsa snapped photographs and helped haul the bodies to a graveyard at the edge of the forest.
  — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
• The graveyard has more than a thousand missiles, or parts of them.
  — Vasilisa Stepanenko, ajc, 23 Dec. 2022
• As a wave of boulder- and tree-laden mud tore through the chapel, that shelter became a graveyard.
  — Mark Saludes, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2022
• After the funeral, Roman and Dmytro sat on steps at the edge of the graveyard.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• The party features a spooky graveyard, games, prizes, and ice cream.
  — Zareen Syed, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• The World Trade Center was built on ground that had been a graveyard of slaves, many of whom were Muslim.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• The only exceptions were two graves along the other edge of the graveyard belonging to adults.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024