as in cemetery
a piece of land used for burying the dead a once-notorious gunslinger who now lies in the forlorn boneyard of an Old West ghost town

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Recent Examples of boneyard Like Davis-Monthan, these boneyards aren't accessible to the public. Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2024 Retired planes are sent to aircraft boneyards, also called aircraft graveyards. Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2024 That process began in earnest this spring, with the oldest models selected for the boneyard. Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 25 May 2023 The last Boeing 747 commercial passenger jet to be delivered was in July 2017 -- a jumbo for Korean Air Lines -- and in January 2018 US passenger operations ended when Delta Air Lines Flight 9771 touched down in a jetliner boneyard in Marana, Arizona. Howard Slutsken, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for boneyard
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Noun
  • Then, instead of going to an L.A. cemetery to bury him, Athena and her children board a plane with Bobby’s casket and take him back to St. Paul, Minnesota to be buried with his first wife, Marcy, and his two children, Robert Jr. and Brooke.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 2 May 2025
  • Officials in Groton, Connecticut, on Monday announced the arrest of a man in connection with the murder of Suzanne Wormser, 58, whose body was found dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase near a cemetery on March 19.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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  • Once a silent graveyard of bleached coral, the ocean floor is now crackling with life thanks in part to the use of technology developed by Mars Sustainable Solutions.
    Cat Cardenas, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Kelly writes in his report that the man caught in the graveyard with Wegman was transported to a local hospital for a pre-existing leg injury.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 3 Apr. 2025

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“Boneyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boneyard. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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