as in cemetery
a piece of land used for burying the dead
reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone
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His pictures of graveyards, seashores, shipwrecks, and mountain vistas force us to ponder our place in the universe.
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Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Trump’s full-on assault could be the black swan that finally sends struggling tuition-dependent schools to the graveyard.
—Emma Whitford, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
On the road to the graveyard, Maybe the singer and I both stunk of the present
To Izzy Kasoff, who married Dave Pinsky’s sister
And adopted Dave’s daughter when the mother died—
Maybe his grievance was with not death or music
But the great story of it all becoming past.
—Robert Pinsky, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
There are three blonde children touring a graveyard at the end.
—Heather Havrilesky, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
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Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Trump’s full-on assault could be the black swan that finally sends struggling tuition-dependent schools to the graveyard.
—Emma Whitford, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
On the road to the graveyard, Maybe the singer and I both stunk of the present
To Izzy Kasoff, who married Dave Pinsky’s sister
And adopted Dave’s daughter when the mother died—
Maybe his grievance was with not death or music
But the great story of it all becoming past.
—Robert Pinsky, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
There are three blonde children touring a graveyard at the end.
—Heather Havrilesky, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for graveyard
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