How to Use graveside in a Sentence

graveside

noun
Definition of gravesidenext
  • The way back from the graveside to the wider world is strewn with petals fallen from the flower of love.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • The grieving woman steps up to a lectern at the graveside.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 9 May 2017
  • The cemetery on the edge of town staggered graveside services, one an hour, all day.
    — Claire Galofaro, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2020
  • Over the years, Jerome became the keeper of the notes often left graveside and the tradition.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Over the years, Jerome became the keeper of the notes often left graveside and the tradition.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2017
  • That is why the movie ends with Cecilia, now a little girl, at a graveside.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
  • One is the Reverend Smith, who once again directs fragments of a graveside sermon to Seth.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Some cousins went to the home of the dearly departed straight from the graveside service and loaded up their cars on their (out of state) way home!
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Some were standing at the graveside Friday in search of answers about whether this was their resting place.
    — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
  • An hour after the graveside service, the couple’s son, Ron Loving, heard his phone ring.
    — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Explosions and helicopters ripped through the air, close enough to drown out his sermon at the graveside.
    — Time, 14 Apr. 2022
  • State television also aired footage of a polling station set up by Soleimani's graveside in the city of Kerman.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 18 June 2021
  • Right after the graveside service, Laffiette got his first Covid-19 shot.
    — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Lydia Reid sat graveside on the day that her infant’s body was being exhumed.
    — Susan Hogan, Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Worse still, on the anniversary of Emma’s death, Florence is made to stand solemnly at her graveside.
    — WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
  • There will be a graveside service planned for a later date on Mackinac Island.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2022
  • But with families hunkered down to avoid the spread of the virus, burials have become rushed graveside services.
    — azcentral, 12 May 2020
  • The family intends to hold a graveside prayer Monday, the anniversary of his death.
    — Dallas News, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Like the quarrel at a graveside in Mount Moriah cemetery in 1917, where two men argued.
    — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 22 June 2018
  • Jin Choo was buried in Portland in a graveside service on a rainy day on Thursday, February 25.
    — oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2021
  • They will be followed by a brief graveside service for family and friends at 12:30 in Maple Hill Cemetery.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Volodomyr Bruduk held a graveside vigil for his brother, Anatoli.
    — Michael Tobin, Fox News, 9 June 2022
  • Her siblings and her longtime therapist were at the graveside, Cooke said, pausing for more than a moment.
    — Jeff Coen, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
  • At the family's request, for anyone coming to the graveside, please avoid wearing black.
    — courant.com, 30 July 2019
  • Family and friends are welcome to join us for a graveside service to celebrate her life at South FL.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • At the graveside service, our long-time business associate (and family friend) of 45 years would not shake hands with my son’s boyfriend.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 28 Jan. 2023
  • At the graveside service and at a candlelight vigil in the neighborhood where he was killed, many of the mourners acknowledged that the past year has brought some progress.
    — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021
  • A day before the anniversary of Rosie's death, about a dozen fresh red roses lay upon her graveside at the historic La Piedad Cemetery.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The visitation and service were closed to the media and graveside services were private.
    — Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Apr. 2021
  • There will be a graveside service at Greenlawn Cemetery near Nashville.
    — Zion Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024

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