burying place
Example Sentences
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Founded around 1828, the cemetery was a burying place for at least 500 people enslaved on nearby plantations in Harris County.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
Last week, as the tenth day of the ordeal dawned, sightseers from all over New Delhi streamed to the burying place afoot and on camelback to watch Narayan's disinterment.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were trees and fields to the north of the Common and the burying place for Africans.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Now, nobody usually ventured into the mountains because long ago one of them had been opened up and used as a burying place for princes.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
Its having been used as a burying place within recent times has, as the same thing has done at Clonmacnois, sadly interfered with its picturesqueness.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.
