graveyard

Example Sentences

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"There's a graveyard of voluntary industry initiatives that shows that handshake agreements and industry commitments are no better than the paper they're written on," Faber told AFP.

From Barron's

Add in recent cemetery thefts in Nebraska, North Dakota, New Mexico, Washington: Across the nation, American graveyards are being pilfered.

From The Wall Street Journal

She was as superstitious as a black cat breaking a mirror in a graveyard.

From Literature

More than a century after the Penrods first arrived, the name is visible on road signs, a graveyard, and a good number of business cards, phone listings and high school year book entries.

From Los Angeles Times

"We are ghosts on the night shift," says Leandro Cristovao from Angola, who has worked the graveyard shift at a south London market for seven years.

From Barron's