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Recent Examples of churchyard
In Ham, after the trespass, the group stopped in a churchyard for lunch, where more thermoses of tea emerged from backpacks.
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Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023
Last summer, O’Farrell presided over a ceremony for the planting of a pair of trees in the churchyard — one commemorating Hamnet, the other Judith.
—Andrew Dickson, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
His company has now taken on the task of mapping every churchyard and municipal burial ground in England—a total of more than 18,000—to create a Google Street View of graveyards in which descendants, genealogists, and conservationists can click on a map and see who was buried there and when.
—WIRED, 25 Nov. 2022
At one point, the thieves threatened to burn the painting unless their demands were met, but unlike The Concert, The Guitar Player was safely recovered with the help of an anonymous tip: a detective found the canvas, wrapped in newspaper, propped up against an old headstone in a London churchyard.
—Ruth Bernard Yeazell, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
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Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023
Last summer, O’Farrell presided over a ceremony for the planting of a pair of trees in the churchyard — one commemorating Hamnet, the other Judith.
—Andrew Dickson, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
His company has now taken on the task of mapping every churchyard and municipal burial ground in England—a total of more than 18,000—to create a Google Street View of graveyards in which descendants, genealogists, and conservationists can click on a map and see who was buried there and when.
—WIRED, 25 Nov. 2022
At one point, the thieves threatened to burn the painting unless their demands were met, but unlike The Concert, The Guitar Player was safely recovered with the help of an anonymous tip: a detective found the canvas, wrapped in newspaper, propped up against an old headstone in a London churchyard.
—Ruth Bernard Yeazell, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for churchyard
Noun
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Someone stole 200 bronze vases off graves in a San Francisco Bay Area cemetery, California sheriff’s officials reported.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacramento Bee,
16 Jan. 2025
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She was buried in an unmarked grave in a segregated cemetery.—
Ellen Wexler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 Jan. 2025
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And, more to the point, what happens when such an event is in the backyard of your home or business?—
Justin Worland,
TIME,
18 Jan. 2025
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The warmth and charm inside the residence extends to the outside of the property as well, from lush vines climbing a backyard trellis and sculptural hedges lining the house.—
Troy J. McMullen,
Architectural Digest,
17 Jan. 2025
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But what really makes this spot stand out is the Kyoto Garden, an authentic Japanese garden created and donated by the Chamber of Commerce of Kyoto in 1991.—
Brad Japhe,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
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Where sharp lines impose order, nature blooms to blur them, and rangy garden beds encroach on clean modern structures.—
Sara James Mnookin,
Architectural Digest,
21 Jan. 2025
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Mountain ranges are graveyards of ghost areas, abandoned by skittish investors or undone by the fickleness of weather gods.—
John Branch,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Most of the graveyard’s shipwrecks concentrated where the powerful Columbia River feeds into the Pacific, further south than the Valencia's resting place.—
Teresa Nowakowski,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But on a clear day after rain, the dooryards and the narrow streets are fragrant with summer lilacs; the overgrown grass by the river, where people of all backgrounds pause to rest, blows on the approach to a high, arcing bridge; and startling moments of bright, simple beauty emerge.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
17 Oct. 2024
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Bridal elms flank a door; an 80-foot dooryard elm shades a house.—
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson,
Washington Post,
10 Mar. 2022
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Sacramento and Yolo County Offices of Education have both affirmed their commitment to keeping federal immigration authorities off of school campuses in response to new directives from President Donald Trump’s administration.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Jan. 2025
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Could a school superintendent be arrested for enforcing state and local laws and policies that bar immigration officers from campus?—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Churchyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churchyard. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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