as in cemetery
a piece of land used for burying the dead
reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone
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Recent Examples of graveyard
In Kabul’s Qala-e-Khater neighborhood, part of a graveyard that has held the bodies of residents for about 200 years also must make way for a new road that will slice through the community.
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ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
Both Syamsiah's parents and grandparents are buried in the village's graveyard.
—Niken Sitoningrum, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
An unceremonious dumping ground for the sort of horror movies most people can live without, Q1 has long functioned as a graveyard for the genre.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026
Maritime archaeologists have discovered a massive 328-foot ship graveyard off the coast of the 2,000-year-old ancient Greek port city of Ptolemais, Libya.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
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ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
Both Syamsiah's parents and grandparents are buried in the village's graveyard.
—Niken Sitoningrum, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
An unceremonious dumping ground for the sort of horror movies most people can live without, Q1 has long functioned as a graveyard for the genre.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026
Maritime archaeologists have discovered a massive 328-foot ship graveyard off the coast of the 2,000-year-old ancient Greek port city of Ptolemais, Libya.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for graveyard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for graveyard
cemetery
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Minab has been transformed into a landscape of collective grief, where the rhythm of daily life now includes frequent visits to the cemetery, where small graves are arranged in neat rows, just steps apart, mimicking the order of a school assembly.—
Zohreh Saberi,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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Sources in Collingdale Borough government said the cemetery has been inundated for years.—
Joe Holden,
CBS News,
5 May 2026
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“Graveyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graveyard. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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