Sentence examples for Graveyard from inspiring English sources

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Graveyard

noun

A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

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The overall argument in Gatherings was that concentrated graveyard gases caused instant death in man and beast; foul-smelling grounds, constantly releasing more diffused miasma, did not produce sudden death – but they debilitated those living nearby, according to their level of exposure and individual resistance.

His technique was repetition, constantly assailing the public with ever more gruesome facts, recycling tales of graveyard degradations, seeking out new examples.

It's like that scene from Thriller where the zombies rise up out of the graveyard.

Location changes dreamlike, at whim; we are either in a mushroomy field in gorgeous countryside, or a Parisian room, or by a seashore or a graveyard.

Related: 'People overstate the extent to which the law must change for new technology' On my way to work I cycle through Sheffield's Victorian graveyard, past the grave of a young man called Ben Littlewood.

There is a large graveyard, a dusty football pitch, a small church missing statues filched by protesting Indians, and at least two impressive hotels.

This cannot become a graveyard for footballers who want a last pay day.

Slip beneath Malta's warm winter water to dive a haunting underwater graveyard including a Blenheim bomber and the destroyer HMS Maori.

Over the past couple of months there have been arson and other attacks on mosques in Hemel Hempstead, Leicester, Scunthorpe, Stoke and Kingston, as well as desecration of a Muslim graveyard and fire-bombing of a halal shop.

Saitta carried out an anatomical survey of the shapes of back plates from at least five skeletons discovered in a Stegosaurus "graveyard" in central Montana, as well as plates from at least six individuals discovered elsewhere.

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