(n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Xavier Niel, one of France’s wealthiest people and a known “cataphile” (those who illegally explore Paris’s catacombs and underground quarries), is said to have built a flight of steps that goes directly from his house down to Paris’s undergrounds.
(2) If postnatal wards are filled with hope for the future, psych wards are catacombs, filled with the death of hope.
(3) You are here in the Kingdom of Death,” warns the macabre inscription at the entrance to Les Catacombes de Paris – the underground boneyard filled with the remains of 6 million Parisians, which attracts half a million living and breathing visitors each year.
(4) Part of the inspiration for the piece had come, he explained, when he was trying to visit the catacombs of the Capuchin monks in Palermo.
(5) He drew a parallel with the church of the persecuted early Christians who preserved their orthodoxy in the catacombs.
(6) It is part of a religious complex containing another ancient church (S Agnese, early 7th century and also with beautiful mosaics) and catacombs.
(7) Further, the quiet, understated scenes between John Clare and Vanessa in the catacombs of the cholera ward allow themes to blossom that few other shows would dare cultivate: God, salvation, theodicy, our responsibility to one another, those truly universal hopes of being accepted and being loved.
(8) Next to the catacombs, a former toll house known as the Barrière d’Enfer (“Gate of Hell”) hosts the Inspection Générale des Carrières (IGC), an office created in 1777 by King Louis XVI to oversee the mapping and maintenance of the 32 sq km of abandoned quarries below the surface of the French capital – an underground space 10 times the size of New York’s Central Park.
Cemetery
Definition:
(n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
(2) Finally, a postscript offers a parallel between the writings of Charles Dickens and the pauper cemetery.
(3) Pathological changes indicate that the cemetery contained individuals representing two slave occupational groups, house servants and laborers.
(4) The purpose of this paper is to present a Mediaeval skeleton of an approximately 16 year old boy, which was excavated at a Danish cemetery containing ca.
(5) By the afternoon of the day of the Smolensk catastrophe, the candles that were usually found in cemeteries on the margins of town had appeared en masse in public spaces in the heart of Warsaw.
(6) The family climbed in on either side and drove about a half mile up the road to a cemetery.
(7) Numerous authors have studied human cemetery remains with an eye toward identifying different socially stratified ethnic or kinship groups within the same population.
(8) Have you ever been to Arlington cemetery?” Khizr asked, a question that remains unanswered.
(9) Today, the man who famously claimed "I filled a cemetery all by myself".
(10) The cemetery is hidden among the rural woods and hills of Caroline County about 30 miles north of Richmond and contains only 47 graves in all.
(11) At least one neighbor was unaware the cemetery was even there.
(12) There was a security cordon around the cemetery, where a high-level government delegation including the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, stood on a stage draped in red and black and addressed a small crowd through loudspeakers.
(13) A spokesman for the Danish Islamic Burial Fund objected to Hussein being buried at a cemetery run by his group.
(14) We made a mass prayers for the ten bodies and then buried them in Martyrs cemetery.
(15) Cemetery remains exposed through vandalism or natural phenomena are frequently brought to the attention of law enforcement agents or medical examiners.
(16) It is not clear if the cemetery's excavation was a warning signal from the guards to the government about a softeneing in its stance towards minorities.
(17) "Some people built tombs to steal archaeology, definitely," said 28-year-old Walid Ibrahim, picnicking on the boundary between the old and new cemeteries.
(18) I've steeled myself to ask her on what ground she wants to be buried, in which cemetery."
(19) Most of us who have lived in Canberra for any time have stood out there amid whipping winds or under a baking sun at the Australian capital's biggest cemetery.
(20) Eighteen pairs of mandible measures were evaluated according to sex on europide skulls coming from south-eastern Hungarian cemeteries of the X-XII., centuries in order to disclose possible measure differences between the left and right side.