How to Use cemetery in a Sentence
cemetery
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There was a stream and then a cemetery up to the right.
—Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
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The freshly dug graves sat at the far end of the cemetery.
—Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
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That was the thrill of going to the cemetery to see The Bronze Lady.
—USA Today, 25 Oct. 2021
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The group has been working since 2020 on the cemetery’s plans.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
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To this day, there’s no stone that marks where he’s buried in the cemetery.
—Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
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The cemetery is not far from a sign that was installed in 2018.
—Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 13 May 2023
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Someday, your child will want to go with Mom to the cemetery.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
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Dessir doesn't talk much on the way to the cemetery, holding her son close.
—Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
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In a cemetery on the city’s outskirts, dozens of new graves have been dug.
—Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
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His headstone now sits perched at the cemetery next to the grave of his father.
—Story, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
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The stories from there are the darkest: 36 dead, now buried in a field, too many for the cemetery.
—Catherine Porter, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
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In any case, Lyons told me the cemetery is open only to Jews.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
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There is no more room in the cemeteries in the city center.
—Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
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The cemetery was located near the city of Aswan, about 550 miles south of Cairo.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
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The cemetery, open to the public, is accessed via a $2 toll bridge.
—Susan Glaser, cleveland, 26 May 2022
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One was a child and snuck into a cemetery as a 2-year-old.
—Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
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Meet up with others to help clean up your choice of the park or cemetery.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2022
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The monastery also has a cemetery where its nuns can be buried.
—Shelia Poole, ajc, 15 Feb. 2023
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He was pulled over by Deputy Steven Calkins near a Naples cemetery.
—USA Today, 4 Apr. 2023
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Alex Schachter was buried in the same cemetery as his mother.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2022
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Price died in 1807 and was buried near the church in a family cemetery.
—Joe Heim, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
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Hikers should head up through the village to the cemetery, where a track leads to Kızılçukur.
—Lisa Morrow, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
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So far, the remains of more than 6,600 people have been found and buried at the cemetery.
—Sabina Niksic, ajc, 9 July 2022
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It’s believed the lost cemetery dates to the mid-1800s and could be where some of Brooklyn’s founders were buried.
—Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
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For both, working at the cemetery isn’t just about steady work.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 15 June 2025
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Some have paid to have a pet interred in the Angel’s Rest cemetery.
—Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
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In one of the final scenes, the boys force their boss to dig graves for them at a seaside cemetery.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
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Smalls has started a nonprofit for the building and the cemetery down the road.
—Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
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Islam will then be buried at a cemetery in Totowa, New Jersey.
—Stephen Sorace , Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2025
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And hundreds, if not thousands, of jack-o-lanterns in all sizes and colors, a zoo of skeleton animals (even octopus), cutesy yard signs, gigantic inflatables and enough grave stones to fill a cemetery.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2025
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