graveyard
noun
grave·yard
ˈgrāv-ˌyärd 
1
: cemetery
2
: something resembling a graveyard
an automobile graveyard
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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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The fashion-tech graveyard is full of examples, from Will.i.am’s Puls wearable to Vertu, a luxury phone brand that offered white-glove service but so-so tech.
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Adriana Lee, WWD, 19 Aug. 2024
Paleontologists found that the site is deeper and older than most of Utah's other renowned dino graveyards — and Newberry's Dystrophaeus remains the earliest sauropod ever found in North America.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 12 Aug. 2024
Shipwreck Beach is a maritime graveyard on the Hawaiian island of Lāna`i.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2024
The only exceptions were two graves along the other edge of the graveyard belonging to adults.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
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Adriana Lee, WWD, 19 Aug. 2024
Paleontologists found that the site is deeper and older than most of Utah's other renowned dino graveyards — and Newberry's Dystrophaeus remains the earliest sauropod ever found in North America.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 12 Aug. 2024
Shipwreck Beach is a maritime graveyard on the Hawaiian island of Lāna`i.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2024
The only exceptions were two graves along the other edge of the graveyard belonging to adults.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
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“Graveyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graveyard. Accessed 15 Oct. 2024.
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