cemetery

Example Sentences

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The Chinese government is set to ban people from storing the cremated remains of their loved ones in empty apartments instead of paying for expensive cemetery plots.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

West of Cairo, Egypt’s capital, a beautifully tended cemetery, roses and all, carries the graves of many of Montgomery’s Eighth Army, their names and regiments carefully inscribed on the pink limestone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Jospin was to be buried at the Montparnasse cemetery in the south of Paris.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Only one location, the urban cemetery of Ribe, showed a pattern connected to health.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

I pulled him by the collar toward the cemetery and shelter.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles