How to Use graveyard in a Sentence

graveyard

noun

• Read the list of names of 215 people buried in the graveyard.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2024
• Throw them in a big pile in the challenge graveyard and light the match.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The imagery from the riff-heavy stunner is all there: the T-bird graveyard, the fires, and more badassery.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
• The graveyard sits on a hill that once was a neighborhood of Agadir.
  — Aida Alami, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• On the day that Charlie was buried, the church and the graveyard were beset by reporters.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• The latest search of the graveyard is expected to end by Nov. 18.
  — Ken Miller, ajc, 26 Oct. 2022
• Bentsa snapped photographs and helped haul the bodies to a graveyard at the edge of the forest.
  — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
• The graveyard has more than a thousand missiles, or parts of them.
  — Vasilisa Stepanenko, ajc, 23 Dec. 2022
• As a wave of boulder- and tree-laden mud tore through the chapel, that shelter became a graveyard.
  — Mark Saludes, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2022
• After the funeral, Roman and Dmytro sat on steps at the edge of the graveyard.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• Part of it is the history of the 5-12 seed line, which has long been a graveyard for the team with a single digit in front of it.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• In a sense, that’s what’s happened with this follow-up, aimed to breathe some life into the graveyard that is Disney+.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 29 Sep. 2022
• Baldwin visits a graveyard and finds the gravestone of a late uncle, born in 1866.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
• Beard, who had been gored by an elephant in 1996, died like an old tusker going to the elephants’ graveyard.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
• This place has been a coaching graveyard, but Canales is gung ho about his new job anyway.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 2 Feb. 2024
• That dropdown menu is soon headed to the software graveyard.
  — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• Sounds of a folk music rehearsal drifted out of the church, down past a shrine and through the island’s seaside graveyard.
  — Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
• The dread disease arrived in the summer of that year; before long, the townsfolk needed to add a new graveyard.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• Afghanistan has known decades of turmoil and invasions, so much so that it was known as the graveyard of empires.
  — Dallas News, 25 Oct. 2022
• But a new book suggests that the U.S. does not have to be a graveyard for companies from the U.K., or indeed anywhere else.
  — Roger Trapp, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
• Even under a thick coating of snow, the graveyard for Russian soldiers killed in the Ukraine war is awash in color.
  — Valerie Hopkins Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
• Pave over the graveyards (parking lots for bones) with expressways.
  — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
• The Milky Way galaxy has a graveyard of dead stars that stretches three times the height of the galaxy, according to new research.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
• Set in a graveyard, it’s realized by four a cappella singers in the Isicathamiya style and nine dancers.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
• Although the sale does not include the surrounding eerie graveyard, Paul Fosh Auctions said the chapel has been stripped.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2023
• The graveyard of Democrats' ambitions could wind up as the salvation of an agenda.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 1 July 2022
• Another stop tells the tale of Count Carl Von Cosel, who stole his wife’s body out of the graveyard and put it into his bed — for seven years.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Most references to them are in the prop graveyard outside the mansion, inscribed in all those gag tombstones.
  — Vulture, 31 July 2023
• Although he was laid to rest in the royal graveyard known as the Valley of the Kings, Tut’s tomb was tiny compared to the cavernous crypts of his neighboring pharaohs.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2022
• The graveyard opening alone portends dread, obsession and fates that are already too late to be turned away from.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024