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• After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.From the entry lunch
• They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.From the entry remains
• The pyramids at Giza are flanked by large cemeteries containing hundreds of mastabas.From the entry mastaba
• You can play wherever you want, but remember that the cemetery is out of bounds.From the entry out of bounds
• A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.From the entry specter
• She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.From the entry rest
• Her dad was a cemetery caretaker for many years. There was a lot of landscaping work. The gravedigging itself was done with backhoes.From the entry caretaker
• They discovered Weller had two daughters and a daughter-in-law in the same cemetery.2021 September 24, Lauren M. Johnson and Christina Zdanowicz, “A gravestone missing for almost 150 years was being used as a marble slab…. From the entry daughter
• Beyond the cemetery walls just about anyone who can has gone, fled.2018, Paul French, City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 234. From the entry Chapei
• This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot…. From the entry nope
• A few examples of material objects included in deathlore are: tombstones, roadside memorials, coffins, and cemeteries.2011, Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art, page 363. From the entry deathlore
• Under an epitaphed marble slab in a nearby grassy cemetery a loved one rots .2008, William E. Woodruff, A Quirky Eye, page 137. From the entry epitaphed
• The cemetery was giving him the willies, he said, the absolute creeps, so he quickly left.2008, Evan Kuhlman, “Cemetery Tales III”, in The Last Invisible Boy, New York, N.Y.: ginee seo books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers…. From the entry saddies
• Anthony Sparno’s days are usually filled with silent hours tending his gateless 12-acre cemetery.2007 March 18, Roja Heydarpour, “At Muslim Resting Place, 5 New Child-Size Graves”, in New York Times. From the entry gateless
• East of Khotan itself, we find a local culture typified by a cemetery at Sampul (Shanpula).2000, J.P. Mallory, Victor H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West, →ISBN, →OCLC…. From the entry lop
• “There was something in the cemetery last night,” she told her Watcher.1999, Laura Anne Gilman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Visitors, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry stalkerish
• Tuesday in Holy Family Roman Catholic Church here with burial in the church cemetery.1986 October 9, “[Obituaries] Mary P. Bellard”, in Daily World, volume 46, number 246, Opelousas, La., →OCLC, page 14, column 2. From the entry Maxina
• As the place grew overcrowded, the content was carried to the cemetery for burial.1983, Jacob Z[allel] Lauterbach, “73. Ritual for Disposal of Damaged Sefer Torah (Vol. XXXIV, 9124, pp. 74–75)”, in Walter Jacob, editor…. From the entry genizah
• Who was it that had made the place what it was: the uniquest cemetery in the world?1959, Aldous Huxley, The collected works of Aldous Huxley, page 206. From the entry uniquest
• This cemetery had a gravekeeper who kept the graves from getting muddled together with weeds and brambles.1942, Emily Carr, “Cemetery”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry gravekeeper
• If, in spite of care, one of the dogs should die, Dogdoctor Smith has a cemetery handy.1930 September 29, “Modern Doggery”, in Time, volume 16, number 13, →ISSN, page 52. From the entry dogdoctor
• "It's so peaceful." ¶ "So's a marble orchard." ¶ "A marble orchard?" ¶ "A cemetery."1927, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Lost Ecstasy: A Novel, page 258. From the entry marble orchard
• There was a Potter's Field, a cemetery for the poor and friendless, far out in the country.1917. Anna Alice Chapin, Greenwich Village (Mead Dodd, p. 10). From the entry potter's field
• Body parts are scattered about the cemetery where bombs have landed, uprooting the corpses from their flimsy paper-mache coffins.2018, Paul French, City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 234. From the entry Chapei
• Around it, more corbeaux, cemetery gargoyles guarding the dead.2016, Elizabeth Nunez, Prospero's Daughter, →ISBN, page 317. From the entry corbeau
• There is a cemetery next to the Mission, a small part of the huge one which was streeted over.2011, Robert White, Romantic Getaways in San Francisco & the Bay Area, Hunter Publishing, Inc, →ISBN. From the entry street
• In the cemetery, the ostensorium, also known as a monstrance, will mark the grave of a member of the clergy.2009, Douglas Keister, Stories in Stone, page 150. From the entry ostensorium
• “How come there’s never any birds in cemeteries?” Skelote undertoned.1999, Thomas Sullivan, chapter 35, in The Martyring, Crossroad Press, published 2015. From the entry undertone
• Police went to the cemetery at Trafalgar, near Yallourn, and discovered that a woman's body had been stolen from a grave.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 38. From the entry outrage
• Mrs Andalucia Potter Hall, 89, of Brookline, who died Tuesday, was buried in the Green River cemetery yesterday.1936 May 2, “Greenfield Briefs”, in Springfield Daily News, 56th year, number 287, Springfield, Mass., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 7. From the entry Andalucia
• For decades, the Hindu cemetery in Happy Valley, tucked behind the community’s large temple on Wong Nai Chung Road, had fallen into disrepair.2021 March 28, Rhea Mogul, “Hong Kong volunteers turn out to restore Happy Valley’s historic Hindu cemetery”, in Hong Kong Free Press…. From the entry Happy Valley
• About a mile from the cemetery entrance, hundreds lined the streets, holding up umbrellas and makeshift tents to protect themselves from the unrelenting sun.2020 June 10, Vivian Ho, “'He'll change the world': George Floyd's family pays emotional tribute as crowds flock to funeral”, in The…. From the entry rest in power
• Goethe's play is in fact modeled after Shakespeare's tragedy, and the last act is riddled with references to the cemetery scene from Hamlet.2014, Katalin Nun, Jon Stewart, editors, Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs: Tome I: Agamemnon to Guadalquivir (Kirkegaard…. From the entry Sturm und Drang
• When comparing Setomaa and Lutheran south-eastern Estonia, no principal differences in the occurrence of village cemeteries and holy sites in natural places is observed.2004, Jörn Staecker, The European Frontier: Clashes and Compromises in the Middle Ages; International Symposium of the Culture Clash Or…. From the entry Setomaa
• Although born in Georgia, Meigs considered Lee a traitor and vowed to punish him by turning his beloved home into a Union cemetery.2003 May 25, Randy Kraft, “Arlington held significance for Washington kin, Robert E. Lee”, in The Morning Call, retrieved 10 Mar 2021. From the entry union cemetery
• Our cemeteries are popular tourist attractions.1998, Geoff Nicholson, Bleeding London. From the entry necropolis
• In the morning they received permission from the ‘Silʹrada’ (The Village Council) and were ready to transfer the body to their cemetery.1985, Атана́сій Васи́ль Пе́кар, ЧСВВ [Athanasius Basil Pekar, OSBM], “Peter Oros — Our Martyred Priest (1917–1953)” (chapter xii, pages…. From the entry silrada
• Before the grave was half filled a truck entered the cemetery gates towing a lowboy with a tractor chained to the bed.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 155. From the entry lowboy
• Fig. 89 Distribution of barrow cemeteries around Stonehenge and other Neolithic monuments: 1. round barrows, 2. long barrows, C. the Cursus, LC.1979, J[ohn] M[orton] Coles, A[nthony] F[ilmer] Harding, The Bronze Age in Europe: An Introduction to the Prehistory of Europe, c.2000-700…. From the entry cursūs

Meaning of cemetery

1. noun A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.

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Questions about cemetery in a sentence

How do you use cemetery in a sentence?

Cemetery is used as a noun. For example: “After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.”

What is a short sentence with cemetery?

“Our cemeteries are popular tourist attractions.”

What does cemetery mean?

Cemetery means a place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.