(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.
Tombstone
Definition:
(n.) A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.
Example Sentences:
(1) This supports the hypothesis that glial nodules unassociated with Toxoplasma tachyzoites may represent the tombstone of a Toxoplasma cyst.
(2) It's not hard to picture her, dodging the autograph-hunters, wisecracking at the tombstones, seizing life while she can.
(3) Might a leg, or an arm or a finger be sticking out from under Gaskell's smiling tombstone?
(4) The garment is emblazoned with a tombstone on which "Thatcher" is etched, with the slogan below reading "A generation of trade unionists will dance on Thatcher's grave."
(5) But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
(6) If he dies there, what should be engraved on his tombstone?
(7) I went to ask the local priest, who said they had taken the tombstones and crushed them for building materials or something like that.
(8) "I've told my comrade Trevor [Manuel, the planning minister], in my will, I leave very clear instructions when I pass, my obituary or tombstone – if anybody believes I deserve a tombstone – should say: 'Others made suggestions and he implemented.'"
(9) Some are inspirational, such as the grave of Philip Gould , the Labour strategist, who wanted his tombstone to be a gathering place where the living could meet and even commune with the dead.
(10) That three-word phrase, expressing a sincere hope that the dead will find peace in the afterlife, is a fitting inscription for a tombstone, and now a very popular hashtag on social media.
(11) Mandelson held up a Tory campaign poster featuring a tombstone, which attacked Labour's social care plan for the elderly, adding: "And by the way, don't give us any lectures about frightening, scaremongering advertisements.
(12) His film roles to date include starring alongside Liam Neeson in action movie A Walk Among the Tombstones and family adventure film Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.
(13) He spoke of “rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape”, the workers who had been “forgotten” and “left behind”, and promised they would be forgotten no more.
(14) Four men developed silicosis after sandblasting tombstones for an average of 35 months; 3 of them died an average of 59 months after their first exposure to sandblasting.
(15) A few days earlier I had spoken to Carmen Mercer, the group's vice president, who "started securing the border with a handful of patriotic Americans" in her home town of Tombstone.
(16) Allende equally jokily chimed in: "Young man, do you know what's going to be on my tombstone?"
(17) Hayes is a founder of the Cornerstone – dubbed Tombstone – group of socially conservative Tories which gave Cameron a significant boost in the 2005 leadership contest after backing him when he agreed to pull his party out of the centre-right EPP grouping in the European parliament.
(18) The television adverts had made it plain: the sexually active among us were headed for an early grave under a towering tombstone marked by those four letters.
(19) This came too late,” said Smajlovic, who lives alone in her home overlooking 7,000 white tombstones where the victims were buried.
(20) I find it eventually – there is a tableau vivant of tombstones and a pair of people dressed as Burma's president Thein Sein and David Cameron with outsize papier-mâché heads – but I'm distracted from stories of potential genocide by the activities of Stonewall and the London Gay Chorus who are also protesting, just yards away.