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churchyard

noun

Definition of churchyard

as in cemetery

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as in backyard

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Recent Examples of churchyard Only days before, Al-Rahi had stood in the very churchyard where the crowd assembled Wednesday for his funeral. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026 An unusual structural failure recently caused a dramatic, sinkhole-like collapse in an historic English churchyard — revealing a 300-year-old family vault. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 Nov. 2025 Workers buried long lengths of pipe in the churchyard, to soak up some of the naturally present warmth in the ground. — Chris Baraniuk, Wired News, 13 Nov. 2025 As befits the setting of an old stone church with a shadowy churchyard, theological themes surface concerning everything from faith to resurrection to desecration to the nature of miracles. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for churchyard

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Reached by phone for comment, David Pimm, the president of the Bohemian National Cemetery Association, said two of the cemetery’s three retorts, or furnaces, were not working due to an electrical fire.

— Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
The narrative begins with a prologue in which a man mows grass in a cemetery dotted with twenty-four unmarked graves.

— Keziah Weir, Vanity Fair, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of cemetery

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Last but not least, this mini bar cart is easy to wheel into any room, including the bedroom, bathroom, or even backyard, to enjoy a refreshment anytime, anywhere.

— Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2026
Bears have been seen entering residential homes and roaming backyards along the Front Range, and even helping themselves to M&Ms in luxury hotels in the high country.

— Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of backyard

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Avedon, whose work and career had a big influence on Hujar early on, had produced a series of images of the Palermo catacombs in 1959.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
The monastery includes a massive network of underground catacombs, which contain the bodies of early Slavic saints, and is one of the most sacred locations in Eastern Orthodox Christianity and a symbol of the country’s cultural and spiritual heritage.

— News Desk, Artforum, 15 June 2026

Definition of catacombs

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Her father drank apple juice, romped in the garden, and remembers his time in Madras fondly.

— Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Improvements will include a new energy-efficient white roof hosting a solar array, large glassy front windows, a community flex room, garden areas and new hold lockers and book drops, among other amenities.

— Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2026

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With a few wonderful exceptions that proved the rule (The Good Place, New Girl), the network sitcom landscape of the 2010s was a graveyard of glib titles, gimmicky premises, and mercifully short runs.

— Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
The casualties of picking wrong fill the YC fintech graveyard.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of graveyard

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Ohio campus targets 10 GW SB Energy, SoftBank’s energy subsidiary, is developing the Ohio campus for OpenAI.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
Now there are four campuses with 10,000 to 12,000 annual students ranging from teenagers through retirees, as well as a staff eager to position the college as a true community hub.

— Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026

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