How to Use cemetery in a Sentence

cemetery

noun
  • 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
  • In a cemetery on the city’s outskirts, dozens of new graves have been dug.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
  • 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 cemetery, open to the public, is accessed via a $2 toll bridge.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 26 May 2022
  • Meet up with others to help clean up your choice of the park or cemetery.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Hikers should head up through the village to the cemetery, where a track leads to Kızılçukur.
    — Lisa Morrow, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
  • So far, the remains of more than 6,600 people have been found and buried at the cemetery.
    — Sabina Niksic, ajc, 9 July 2022
  • It’s believed the lost cemetery dates to the mid-1800s and could be where some of Brooklyn’s founders were buried.
    — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Some have paid to have a pet interred in the Angel’s Rest cemetery.
    — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Smalls has started a nonprofit for the building and the cemetery down the road.
    — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The war veterans' section in the cemetery at the edge of Pavlohrad has rows of fresh graves.
    — Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Still, the steel bollards stacked near the cemetery were an ominous sign.
    — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Then eight days later, near the same cemetery, a purse was snatched from a black 2021 BMW.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The cemetery’s opening in the fall of 1904 was a festive affair.
    — Carson Kessler, ProPublica, 25 July 2022
  • Cupp was buried at a cemetery across from a cornfield on March 9.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Its bluffs and beaches became a vast cemetery, volcanic ash and black sand burying the dead.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Take a look In southern Poland, researchers discovered iron bracelets, ankle rings and other items in a cemetery, some of which were made using meteoritic iron.
    — Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025

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