graveyard

How To Use graveyard In A Sentence

• The main path in the graveyard across the road from the church will be replaced this week.
• He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos. The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
• It surely has the finest opening of any such picture: a nightmarish scene in a fenland graveyard. Times, Sunday Times
• They took a cab out to the small chapel and graveyard amongst the marble quarries on the outskirts of town. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
• For instance there were certain stones to be found in fields or graveyards with a hole or hollow which at times was full of water.
• The northeast has become a managerial graveyard. Times, Sunday Times
• “Lych” was the Old English word for corpse — hence the roofed-over lych gate outside most churches, for the temporary resting of the bier (and its bearers) on the way into the graveyard. The Moor
• One of the ancillary reasons, Hall decided to visit Assam was because he wanted to see if he could find the fabled graveyard of elephants - the final resting place these behemoths head towards when they sense the end was near.
• From the top, we can see mosques, churches and synagogues and graveyard after graveyard.
• Tucked away in a graveyard slot in the middle of the week, Exposure punches way above its weight. Times, Sunday Times