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How to use churchyard in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Churchyard means a patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard. Example: “The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.”

Examples of churchyard by meaning

nounA patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.

  • They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
  • Ayot St Lawrence's most famous inhabitant, George Bernard Shaw, moved into the New Rectory in 1906 because, it is said, of a gravestone epitaph in the churchyard.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 44

More sentences with churchyard

  • The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.From the entry deceased
  • Helena thought of the lonely girl in her flower-print dress at the churchyard.2016, Rachel Hickman, One Silver Summer, Old Barn Books, published 2017, →ISBN, page 197. From the entry teadress
  • Austin,' Lestrade said, 'but we are as yet unfamiliar with the toxology of the churchyard.2000, M.J. Trow, Lestrade and the Sign of Nine, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry toxology
  • Its churchyard has a well-groomed air, with tailored hedges and lawns.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 55. From the entry well-groomed
  • Church Hill climbs steeply to All Saints, with its lych-gate at the entrance to the churchyard.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 68. From the entry lych-gate
  • Agnes Roman Catholic Church with its heraldic spire floating on the night sky, and its ancient bumpy churchyard.2001, Middle Age: A Romance, Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 17). From the entry caulking
  • In the churchyard stands a rare 14th-century preaching cross.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 73. From the entry preaching cross
  • "Are you afraid of going across the churchyard in the dark?" a young lady inquired of an old woman.1905 August 26, Edward Peacock, “Replies. Yorkshire Dialect.”, in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men…. From the entry wick
  • Any-rate, thur wur lots of talk, fur 'twas seed not only in the church, and churchyard, but up at the house."1905, Joseph Hocking, Roger Trewinion. From the entry thur
  • Do not cast pearls before gypsies!" he mussitated, walking on, and did not stop until he reached the churchyard, where he faced a peculiar sight.2014, Magdalena Zyzak, “In which Odolechka is Introduced to the Automobile, a Technology hitherto Largely in the Domain of Rumor”, in The…. From the entry mussitate
  • The churchyard is therefore still the final resting place of Kingstonians, as is the Memorial Garden, which was once the church 'overflow' burial ground.2014, Julian McCarthy, Secret Kingston Upon Thames, →ISBN. From the entry Kingstonian
  • The funeral hudd is a piece of plain and practical joinery that is just about light enough to trundle out into the churchyard when needed.2010 September 2, Philip Wilkinson, “Brookland, Kent”, in English Buildings (blog), archived from the original on 20 Nov 2023. From the entry hudd
  • A duck-pond laps against the churchyard wall, and it was here that local duck breeders founded a prosperous trade of raising birds for the table.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 213, about Haddenham, Bucks. From the entry duck pond
  • Early in the 19th century, Udny Green churchyard was a favourite haunt of resurrectionists who dug up freshly interred corpses to sell to the medical school at Aberdeen.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 388. From the entry resurrectionist
  • Search among the ivies and yews of the shady little churchyard will discover a number of flat, weatherworn slabs of stone, but the verses and the signatures have vanished.1909, Eric Parker, chapter XXIII, in Highways and Byways in Surrey. From the entry epitaph
  • West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56. From the entry appalled
  • The first thing that greets you on entering the church is a notice asking you not to vex the goat, since it renders valuable service in keeping the churchyard tidy.1980, AA book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164. From the entry goat

Meaning of churchyard

  1. noun A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.

Full definition of churchyard

Questions about churchyard in a sentence

How do you use churchyard in a sentence?
Churchyard is used as a noun. For example: “The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.”
What is a short sentence with churchyard?
“The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.”
What does churchyard mean?
Churchyard means a patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.

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