graveyard

Example Sentences

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About 140 graves sit on the west side of the graveyard and 138 that sit on the opposite site, according to a satellite image taken in early April provided by SI Analytics.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

‘I always did the graveyard shift’: I worked for 54 years.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

The Strait of Hormuz, sailors said, risks becoming a graveyard for a trading system so integral to the modern economy that most consumers, accustomed to cheap imports and three-day shipping, take it for granted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Earlier, eight people in black, presumably Oseguera's family members, rode in two cars that followed the white hearse with his remains to the graveyard.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

Then he showed us how to grind the brick pieces, then how much graveyard dirt to mix with it.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce