cemetery
Example Sentences
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One person wrote on Weibo, China's equivalent of X: "Who would resort to this if cemetery plots were affordable?"
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
Pusztavacs, which has 1,300 inhabitants, received state support to renovate its cemetery and church and got its first automatic cash machine last year as part of a government law to install machines in all villages.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
The cemetery, too, starts to overflow, and so bodies must be burned.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
In Ain Ebel's cemetery, Jallad caresses her son's tombstone, surrounded by women trying to comfort her.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
The Drowned Forest lurked like a silent cemetery, and when we rotated the raft to face the curtains of mist and flame beyond, my heart skipped a beat.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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