resting place

noun

1

: a place where people can stop and rest

We found a good resting place by the side of the trail.

2

: a place where someone is buried

her final/last resting place

3

: a place where something has been put

The monument was moved to a new resting place.

Examples of resting place in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Another witness is Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (1864), resurrected from his resting place among the Black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. —Tyehimba Jess, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026

The robotic characters break free from their restaurant resting place to cause chaos in town, while the villainous Marionette pops up to possess victims for her own nefarious purposes. —Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026

The striking bronze sculpture, designed by architect, Kenneth Treister, is at the center of the memorial, which opened in 1990 to be a formal place of remembrance for those with no resting place. —Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026

Alice, who often visited Charlotte's resting place, also knew about Jack and Rachel's secret trysts near the graveyard. —Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026

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