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Meanings of cemetery in English
A tract of land used for burials.
Synonyms
Examples for "graveyard"
Examples for "graveyard"
1
The Buso live in the great branching trees and in the graveyard.
2
The graveyard of Canada in Flanders is large; it is very large.
3
It is a myth that health is a graveyard of political careers.
4
You are in the graveyard of all the emotions of the earth.
5
I remember the graveyard I believe you know my name it's Mary.
1
In the churchyard John Sterling's grave and the grave of the Rev.
2
At length the mourners reached the churchyard and gathered around the grave.
3
The old trees in the churchyard cast their shade over ancient graves.
4
The grass in the churchyard sparkled with the fairy film of gossamers.
5
He was buried in Chiswick churchyard, near the grave of William Hogarth.
1
New urban cemetery land is limited and regulations regarding cemeteries are complex.
2
They were to be seen even above the graves in the cemeteries.
3
Among the many places of interest in the city were the cemeteries.
4
Over the years I've logged a surprising number of hours at cemeteries.
5
Marlborough funeral director David Buckley said cemeteries come under parks and reserves.
1
They echoed throughout the necropolis, accompanied by a louder crash of stone.
2
The whole population of the necropolis made their living out of the dead.
3
The damage to the basilica and the necropolis can be repaired.
4
The necropolis was the burial site for courtiers and high-ranking officials.
5
The camera pointing into the main necropolis revealed nothing but darkness.
1
They went to a Viking burial site on Man associated with sacrifice.
2
At the burial site, the other two orange trucks were already parked.
3
Tamhlacht means a mass burial site for plague or famine victims.
4
The mound in Fernleigh-Over is probably an Indian burial site of some antiquity.
5
Was it a burial site or, as many suggest, a place of worship?
1
I didn't enjoy all the excitement about the burial ground, of course.
2
Only at the extreme end of the burial ground did it pause.
3
Either way, the Abenaki's complaint about a burial ground had been valid.
4
Through an open archway to the east we enter the burial ground.
5
It made you want to tread carefully, as at any burial ground.
1
In recent years, the burying ground had become popular with Chinese tourists.
2
There was a small and very ancient-looking burying ground on the point.
3
Four men stood inside the rusted fence of the Bonecutter burying ground.
4
The burying ground, said Frater Antony, was a short distance into the desert.
5
This burying ground will be referred to hereafter; so do not forget it.
1
Present to your community some needed memorial park, building, or other monument.
2
The memorial park was a verdant green field surrounded by trees bright with new spring growth.
3
The RSA is opposing the building of the country's first memorial park to wartime conscientious objectors.
4
The RSA is opposing the planned site of the country's first memorial park to wartime conscientious objectors.
5
The memorial park was officially opened at the weekend to acknowledge the centenary of the First World War.
Usage of cemetery in English
1
A BOMB exploded early this morning outside a cemetery in west London.
2
The dedication of the new cemetery at Gettysburg had been important, therefore.
3
New urban cemetery land is limited and regulations regarding cemeteries are complex.
4
And there were many new graves in the cemetery on the hill.
5
So the cemetery site was way out of town, said Ms Edmonds.
6
THE Dutchman was buried in the little cemetery which faced the hospital.
7
I can't go digging up some historic cemetery looking for bear victims.
8
The Idaho Division of Veterans Services said the cemetery's policy remains unchanged.
9
It must have taken at least an hour to reach the cemetery.
10
Meeting that growing demand requires a cemetery company to acquire more property.
11
As a result, headstone transcripts and cemetery registers have become disproportionately important.
12
Arriving at the cemetery, they halted in front of an open grave.
13
We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast cemetery, he said.
14
He died in A.H. 911, and was buried in the Bakia cemetery.
15
The cemetery had been there a lot longer than the nursing home.
16
There was an ironical justice in the condition of the old cemetery.
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