Sentence examples for visiting a cemetery from inspiring English sources

"It was like they were visiting a cemetery".

Henri Cole's lyric verse about watching a hurricane from afar reminds the artist Hernan Bas of visiting a cemetery in New Orleans before Katrina.

Driving downtown was like visiting a cemetery, and the very few people I did see were old and black, with resignation written all over their faces.

For instance, tourists visiting a cemetery or religious site may want to take a photo of someone in a clearly emotional state.

The idea of burial, memorial, visiting a cemetery or any tradition that exists after a person dies, is strictly for the sake of the living.

In a short film called normalizing death, the group is shot visiting a cemetery, sleeping on different tomb stones not in order to have a product to show from it, but to, in their own words, "feel in touch with the cycle of life".

Reagan's plan to visit a cemetery of German war dead during his forthcoming visit to Germany.

- A White House official, on the invitation to visit a cemetery in Bitburg where some Nazi SS soldiers are buried.

Strolling The Sites A few tips if you plan to visit a cemetery: *Call ahead; cemetery hours and days open vary from place to place.

(where John Updike grew up), Ms. Marvel recalled that the first time she was allowed to leave her yard as a child she visited a cemetery down her street and soon began lying atop graves "and singing for the people underneath".

How many people on our tour had actually visited a cemetery before?" This ever-growing estrangement from the "culture" of cemeteries has led to burial being seen as a waste of space in Singapore.