unconsecrated

Example Sentences

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He learned, only recently, that he had a half sister who died at the home in 1950s and that her remains, presumably, are commingled in the site’s unconsecrated ground.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2018

Fifteen of the bodies still remain buried in unconsecrated graves within the prison walls.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2016

And yet there is something narrow, and basically anachronistic, about this view of “the comments” as a phenomenon restricted to the unconsecrated ground below the line.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 17, 2015

The unconsecrated cemetery’s rusty gates are festooned with colourful feathers, trinkets and ribbons.

From Economist • Jun. 19, 2014

The blackberry patch was in a far unused corner of the graveyard, adjoining a plot of unconsecrated ground where, as Willie and Margery had often heard, only murderers were buried.

From A Little Question in Ladies' Rights by Fillmore, Parker