(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.
Mausoleum
Definition:
(n.) A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
Example Sentences:
(1) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
(2) Iran: 12 dead as Islamic State claims attacks on parliament and shrine Read more The mausoleum where Khomeini was laid to rest almost exactly 28 years ago, on 6 June 1989, is an enormous complex dominating the skyline south of Tehran.
(3) Inside the mausoleum, Cadorna is watched over by 12 statues of soldiers cut from the stone of the Val d'Ossola.
(4) Some startlingly grand privately owned buildings have repeatedly appeared on the annual register of the most important listed buildings at risk – virtually all the HHA properties are listed, and many are also scheduled ancient monuments or set in grade I gardens – including garden buildings and follies at Castle Howard in Yorkshire and Frogmore mausoleum, which holds some of the Queen's ancestors, in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
(5) Other projects have included Angola’s Agostino Neto Mausoleum , which is reported to have cost $55m, and two statues of Robert Mugabe thought to have cost Zimbabwe $5m.
(6) The prime minister bowed her head in respect after laying a large red and white wreath – the colours of Turkey’s flag – before Atatürk’s sarcophagus inside the imposing mausoleum on a hill in the centre of Ankara.
(7) His mausoleum stands in the square; his 4.6 metres (15ft) by 3.7 metres portrait hangs from the gate.
(8) There are inevitable differences of opinion about how best to commemorate the Soviet occupation; Grutas Park in particular has attracted criticism for creating a shrine to communism, rather than a mausoleum for it.
(9) It has a prehistoric, mausoleum kind of quality, its entrance marked with a ghost tree of empty bottles.
(10) We also want to try to improve their living conditions: through our activities we are able to create 140 jobs just in the reconstruction of the mausoleums, then you can add the mosques and the rest.” However, funds for the rebuilding are short.
(11) Fourteen mausoleums destroyed in 2012 have since been restored by the United Nations.
(12) It tackles various instances across three periods in the 20th-century when history has been called on to construct a heroic Persian identity – such as from 1925 to 1941, under the Pahlavi dynasty, when monumental mausoleums drew on ancient forms to honour historic national heroes, while simultaneously using the formal language of modern construction to project into the future.
(13) After staying up all night on Friday, he will put it on and make his way to Garang's mausoleum, where the independence ceremony will occur.
(14) Spain to make first exhumations from civil war mausoleum Read more The Fossar is relatively inaccessible from the city.
(15) The village in which he had been born was graced with a palace, and it was ordained that he should be buried in the nearby family mausoleum, echoing the royal custom of hilltop interment.
(16) Beyond that the similarities end, since Macrinus did not fall out with the emperor's son nor become a gladiator but died a rich man, honoured by his massive mausoleum.
(17) I have my personal favorites such as the Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum but again this is the architect in me talking.
(18) Their remembrance was perpetuated by the building of a mausoleum on which the lying image of the decreased ("le gisant") was chiselled.
(19) He is charged in the destruction of 10 historic buildings including mausoleums and a mosque in Timbuktu.
(20) Islamic radicals who overran Timbuktu in 2012 destroyed 14 of the city’s 16 mausoleums, one-room structures that house the tombs of the city’s great thinkers.