How to Use graveyard in a Sentence
graveyard
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This is the pitch deck graveyard.
—Rich Bornstein, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
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The first scene in the video takes place in a dark, eerie graveyard.
—Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 28 Aug. 2017
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Left in the thorny bushes of the graveyard is a clue.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
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At the heart of this graveyard cake recipe is a great chocolate cake.
—Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
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Throw them in a big pile in the challenge graveyard and light the match.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2023
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There is a bit of whistling-past-the-graveyard in such reports.
—Greg Petro, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
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That place was a football graveyard.
—Bruce Feldman, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025
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But on first glance, the graveyard looked like it had been abandoned for decades.
—Michael David Lukas, New York Times, 8 June 2018
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Her bones are said to be buried in the graveyard near a church named in her honor.
—jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
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Why gift flowers from the graveyard?
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
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Then comes the wrenching graveyard scene.
—Margaret Heidenry, Vanity Fair, 24 Dec. 2025
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The storm left something of an airplane graveyard in its wake.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2018
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There's a Mars graveyard on the surface, too.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 4 June 2026
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The graveyard has more than a thousand missiles, or parts of them.
—Vasilisa Stepanenko, ajc, 23 Dec. 2022
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The road wound upwards, past a sloping graveyard and cedar trees.
—Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
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These trees, this graveyard, her walk among them mocked that memory.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
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The party features a spooky graveyard, games, prizes, and ice cream.
—Zareen Syed, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
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Betting against this trade, at least for now, may well be your ticket to the graveyard.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 2 June 2026
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Read the list of names of 215 people buried in the graveyard.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2024
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As a wave of boulder- and tree-laden mud tore through the chapel, that shelter became a graveyard.
—Mark Saludes, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2022
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The graveyard sits on a hill that once was a neighborhood of Agadir.
—Aida Alami, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
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As the town contracts, the graveyard expands.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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The town government knocked it down during the night and buried the pieces in the graveyard.
—Karoline Kan, New York Times, 15 May 2018
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In the graveyard of Denver two-minute drills, that drive deserves its own crypt.
—Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2019
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Less charitably, this part of his lab is a graveyard.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
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Many graves date back to around 1850 when settlers first formed the graveyard.
—Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 5 May 2024
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On the train to Kyiv, I was struck by how many fresh graveyards lined the railway tracks.
—Jens Stoltenberg, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2023
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Which is what sent Quinn back to the graveyard at Sacred Heart.
—Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2019
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The paintings tell of life in the state’s villages and towns, with their squares, churches and graveyards.
—Sandra Dibble, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 May 2017
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The desert — churned, sucked and acid-washed — rests in these graveyards of the Anthropocene.
—Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
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