graveyard

Example Sentences

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“Great work by our graveyard Officers, even when tired, for trusting their instincts, staying persistent, and quite literally listening to the walls.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

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

A couple’s $800,000 renovation brought a circa-1893 chapel in England, complete with a graveyard, back to life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

And reminders of the disaster were everywhere in their village—the crumbling church, the ruined school, the graveyard where Mama was buried.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis