graveyard
noun
grave·yard
ˈgrāv-ˌyärd 
1
: cemetery
2
: something resembling a graveyard
an automobile graveyard
Examples of graveyard in a Sentence
reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone
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People have been illegally dumping in the graveyard, and the association is working to stop it.
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Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025
Huge pieces of it are expected to survive long enough to plunge into a watery grave known as Point Nemo, a spacecraft graveyard in the Pacific.
—Tariq Malik, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025
Read the issue » One morning, Axelsson sat on a rock, eating a tin of cod liver by a graveyard overlooking the town.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
For its part, Singapore has been aggressively retrofitted according to the whims of capital—its coastline expanded, its graveyards exhumed and paved over, its landmarks destroyed—leaving the populace disoriented.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025
Huge pieces of it are expected to survive long enough to plunge into a watery grave known as Point Nemo, a spacecraft graveyard in the Pacific.
—Tariq Malik, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025
Read the issue » One morning, Axelsson sat on a rock, eating a tin of cod liver by a graveyard overlooking the town.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
For its part, Singapore has been aggressively retrofitted according to the whims of capital—its coastline expanded, its graveyards exhumed and paved over, its landmarks destroyed—leaving the populace disoriented.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for graveyard
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“Graveyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graveyard. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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