How to Use cemetery in a Sentence

cemetery

noun
  • As a child, the cemetery was his park.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2026
  • The cemetery scene is … not that.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • To this day, there’s no stone that marks where he’s buried in the cemetery.
    — Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
  • Going to the cemetery was the first day.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The monastery also has a cemetery where its nuns can be buried.
    — Shelia Poole, ajc, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Go to a park — or failing that, a cemetery.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Austin grew up driving past the cemetery.
    — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2026
  • For both, working at the cemetery isn’t just about steady work.
    — Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 15 June 2025
  • As cities age, their cemeteries fill up.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Meet up with others to help clean up your choice of the park or cemetery.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2022
  • In a cemetery on the city’s outskirts, dozens of new graves have been dug.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Dessir doesn't talk much on the way to the cemetery, holding her son close.
    — Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Thousands are buried in the cemetery.
    — Paul Burton, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Turns out, she was buried alive—and is now a mainstay at the cemetery as a ghost.
    — Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Alex Schachter was buried in the same cemetery as his mother.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Someday, your child will want to go with Mom to the cemetery.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
  • An el train moves through the frame at the edge of the cemetery where Vince is now buried.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • His headstone now sits perched at the cemetery next to the grave of his father.
    — Story, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
  • What was surprising was just how many of the bees called the cemetery home.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Still, the steel bollards stacked near the cemetery were an ominous sign.
    — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The ground of the cemetery opens up beneath them, and specters rise into the air.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • She and dozens of parishioners were buried in the cemetery beside the church.
    — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Two historic bronze plaques placed at the entrance of the cemetery were stolen.
    — Paul Burton, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Logan still lives in his childhood home, just a few yards west of the cemetery.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2026
  • Cupp was buried at a cemetery across from a cornfield on March 9.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Only those in the cemetery will be exhumed.
    — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Only those in the cemetery will be exhumed.
    — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • But there are inanimate pets in the cemetery.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The cemetery is free to visit, open to the public and a great way to show your love for dogs.
    — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The soft music of wind chimes drifts through the tiny cemetery, next to a cornfield not yet plowed.
    — George Stanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2021

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