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 An unceremonious dumping ground for the sort of horror movies most people can live without, Q1 has long functioned as a graveyard for the genre. —
Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026 Maritime archaeologists have discovered a massive 328-foot ship graveyard off the coast of the 2,000-year-old ancient Greek port city of Ptolemais, Libya. —Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026 One of the largest displays featured bloodied bundles of white cloth spread across the grass like a makeshift graveyard. —Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026 His inner ears were playing tricks with his sense of orientation… His flight path into the water is consistent with what is known as a graveyard spiral. —Erin Jensen, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for graveyard
Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026 Maritime archaeologists have discovered a massive 328-foot ship graveyard off the coast of the 2,000-year-old ancient Greek port city of Ptolemais, Libya. —Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026 One of the largest displays featured bloodied bundles of white cloth spread across the grass like a makeshift graveyard. —Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026 His inner ears were playing tricks with his sense of orientation… His flight path into the water is consistent with what is known as a graveyard spiral. —Erin Jensen, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for graveyard
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cemetery
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Further out, a cemetery monument stands in honor of the 150 people who died at the camp during their imprisonment.— Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 21 Apr. 2026
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Among those buried in the cemetery is Florida’s first Jewish mayor, Adolph Greenhut, who served from 1913 to 1916 — two decades after his stint as Beth El’s president.— Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
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“Graveyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/graveyard. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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