as in cemetery
a piece of land used for burying the dead
reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone
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Recent Examples of graveyard
Israel is expanding by turning Gaza into a mass graveyard.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
The Mediterranean Sea is probably the largest graveyard in the world, full of people who didn’t make it.
—Hazlitt, 25 Dec. 2024
Blades are frequently buried in fragments in several landfills throughout the Great Plains, transforming sites in Wyoming, Iowa, and South Dakota into wind turbine graveyards.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
John Dutton is finally laid to rest next to his dead wife and ancestors in the ranch graveyard.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
The Mediterranean Sea is probably the largest graveyard in the world, full of people who didn’t make it.
—Hazlitt, 25 Dec. 2024
Blades are frequently buried in fragments in several landfills throughout the Great Plains, transforming sites in Wyoming, Iowa, and South Dakota into wind turbine graveyards.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
John Dutton is finally laid to rest next to his dead wife and ancestors in the ranch graveyard.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for graveyard
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“Graveyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graveyard. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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