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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Facebook Lead Forms Facebook lead forms were once a gold mine, but are now a graveyard of fake names and ghost emails—low intent, zero commitment.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
And yes, the villainous Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald) also returns, reviving his rivalry with with Happy in what appears to be a graveyard.
—Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 19 June 2025
The world may have left England to rot (a subplot involving a foreign soldier implies that other nations have taken an active interest in helping that process along), but any society that allows an entire country to become an open-air graveyard is sick with a terrible virus of its own.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 June 2025
The film was shot as the planet experienced an extreme marine heatwave and shows the effects of the resulting mass coral bleaching: expansive graveyards of bright white coral, devoid of sea life.
—Nell Lewis, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
And yes, the villainous Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald) also returns, reviving his rivalry with with Happy in what appears to be a graveyard.
—Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 19 June 2025
The world may have left England to rot (a subplot involving a foreign soldier implies that other nations have taken an active interest in helping that process along), but any society that allows an entire country to become an open-air graveyard is sick with a terrible virus of its own.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 June 2025
The film was shot as the planet experienced an extreme marine heatwave and shows the effects of the resulting mass coral bleaching: expansive graveyards of bright white coral, devoid of sea life.
—Nell Lewis, CNN Money, 8 May 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 4 Jul. 2025.
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