boneyard

noun

ˈbōn-ˌyärd How to pronounce boneyard (audio)
Definition of boneyardnext
as in cemetery
a piece of land used for burying the dead a once-notorious gunslinger who now lies in the forlorn boneyard of an Old West ghost town

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Recent Examples of boneyard Many fire engines are mothballed in city boneyards, and the department has lost nearly 50 more firefighters since the Palisades fire. — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026 Visitors can also participate in boneyard games, a dig site and the Dinos after Dark event. — Alyson Rodriguez, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026 Without these organisms, which provide the corals with food and bestow their stunning colors, the reef becomes a boneyard. — Susan Casey, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026 The state’s political boneyard has a number of Lake County candidates residing there. — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for boneyard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boneyard
  1. cemetery
  2. graveyard
Noun
  • The Israelis bombed the cemetery where her friends were buried, leaving body parts and bones scattered for relatives to collect like a puzzle.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The series focuses on a 13-year-old named Sophie, who mourns her grandfather Thomas every day in a Milan cemetery.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of cemetery
Noun
  • The clip opens with Spencer in a graveyard, walking through it with a black and white filter.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Geostationary satellites are generally raised into graveyard orbits above the operational region.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of graveyard

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