Sentence examples for cemeteries built on from inspiring English sources

In Roger Rosenblatt's heartbreaking memoir, "Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats," he writes that after a flash flood in Japan, "the cemeteries built on the hillsides become waterlogged.

Today, these once remote areas are thriving cities. Dozens of Catholic churches, schools and cemeteries built on the land purchased by Hurley dot these areas.

Mr. Haadi was one of dozens of Iraqis who came Saturday to this makeshift cemetery built on the edge of town.

The group says it was formed in 1874 and continues to own the cemetery, built on land purchased by its forefathers.

Two cemeteries built by the descendants of the first Portuguese Jews, one is in the Village, & the other on 21st St., near 6th Ave.

Much of the growth has been outside the urban core of Texas cities, which is why cemeteries, traditionally built on a city's fringe, are threatened.

Features such as the typically Christian east-west orientation of the graves have been cited in support of a Christian affiliation, but on the other hand the cemetery was built on an ancient pagan site and there is no obvious reason why a Christian princess would not have been buried at Whitby alongside fellow Christians.

They say the place is haunted because of the cemetery it is built on.

I ended up working with Craig Duff (at the time a videographer for The Times) on a video report about the cemetery, built around the ballad.

Quirk-Silva, a former Fullerton city councilmember and teacher, has focused on local issues, including her push to have a new veterans' cemetery built in Orange County.

Both are modeled after Mt. Auburn Cemetery, built in 1831 in Cambridge, Mass., the first American cemetery in a park-like setting.