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
Loading your audio article Last year’s historic marine heat wave turned Florida’s coral reefs into bleached boneyards.
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Claire Grunewald, Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2024
Last year’s historic marine heat wave turned Florida’s coral reefs into bleached boneyards.
—Claire Grunewald, Miami Herald, 8 July 2024
Driftwood rests on a boneyard beach, a popular term for the weathered remains of shoreline trees that have fallen from an eroding maritime forest due to climate change, last year at Hunting Island State Park in St. Helena, S.C..
—Brie Jackson, NBC News, 24 Apr. 2024
Like Davis-Monthan, these boneyards aren't accessible to the public.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2024
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Claire Grunewald, Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2024
Last year’s historic marine heat wave turned Florida’s coral reefs into bleached boneyards.
—Claire Grunewald, Miami Herald, 8 July 2024
Driftwood rests on a boneyard beach, a popular term for the weathered remains of shoreline trees that have fallen from an eroding maritime forest due to climate change, last year at Hunting Island State Park in St. Helena, S.C..
—Brie Jackson, NBC News, 24 Apr. 2024
Like Davis-Monthan, these boneyards aren't accessible to the public.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boneyard
Noun
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Stoughton man Camryn Guillaume was regularly dealing narcotics in a Randolph cemetery, police said.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
16 Sep. 2025
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In Florida, the Heritage Monitoring Scouts visit archaeological sites, including cemeteries, forts and mills, to record any impacts after extreme weather events.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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But even without European football, and after a decade in which Old Trafford has at times resembled a graveyard for promising careers, the lure of Manchester United — in terms of glamour, prestige and finance — remains powerful.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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