burying ground

Example Sentences

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Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg’s director of archaeology, said rectangular patterns of soil discoloration show the location of the burials in what is almost certainly the church’s old burying ground.

From Washington Post

This Old Dutch Church’s burying ground harbors gravediggers and graverobbers alike.

From New York Times

“It’s a sacred burying ground, and it should be treated as such.”

From New York Times

The cemetery was also referred to as simply “the public burial ground” or “the burying ground” throughout those first 100 years, Wilson said.

From Washington Times

“My mother’s great-aunt, Rachael, gave Baltimore Street to Baltimore, gave the first public female seminary, the first orphan asylum and the first public burying ground,” she once told a reporter.

From Washington Post