graveyard

Example Sentences

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“He was old hat, and Las Vegas was seen as the graveyard of the stars.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

He drove to Arizona from his native California after determining that no other streamer had taken the graveyard shift on the Guthrie beat, and he plans on streaming the residence deep into the night.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026

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 • Dec. 22, 2025

"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 • Dec. 19, 2025

I look around the graveyard to check for any signs that we aren’t alone, but there’s nothing.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish