(n.) The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spring is in the air here too: in the nearby churchyard at West Huntspill, the rookery is thronged with nesting birds.
(2) Although the cathedral is not joining the corporation in its legal battle to rid the churchyard of activists, it provided a witness statement saying the camp's presence was having a detrimental effect on the life of St Paul's.
(3) On the first day of a hearing that will determine whether Occupy London can remain in the churchyard, a lawyer representing the activists dismissed the evidence of a key corporation witness who claimed the camp was causing serious harm to the area.
(4) I want it to be a show that people enjoy when they’re watching it now, and then, in 10 years’ time, they still look back on it incredibly fondly and remember it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The cast of Downton Abbey film scenes on location outside a churchyard.
(5) That first week when he was alone in Whitby, he would go around, soaking up the ambience.” Talking to the old salts on the harbour and mooching around the churchyard up on the East Cliff, Stoker assembled a catalogue of local myths and stories that are recognisable to anyone familiar with the Dracula story.
(6) The corporation had said there was an overwhelming case for the court's intervention because of the impact on the churchyard of the camp.
(7) As for the cathedral's blessing, the canon stressed that while he had not given specific backing to the occupation of St Paul's churchyard, he supported the democratic right to protest peacefully.
(8) "After I was transported to the colonies I vowed to make a fortune and use the money to make a gentleman out of the boy who had helped in the churchyard.
(9) The City of London Corporation has lost control of St Paul's Cathedral, the high court will hear on Monday, with members of an activist camp "setting rules and policing behaviour" in the churchyard.
(10) Sadiq ran a positive campaign about the issues and I think Zac Goldsmith ran a very nasty, divisive campaign and I think that has been roundly rejected.” Asked to comment on the wider local elections results, which saw Labour fall to third behind the SNP and the Tories in Scotland, lose seats in Wales and become the first opposition party to fail to gain council seats in mid-term elections since 1985, Miliband said: “Today’s a day for celebrating Sadiq.” After a children’s choir from St Bonaventure’s school in Forest Gate performed, the gathering moved outside to the churchyard for refreshments and to seize a chance to congratulate the newly elected mayor.
(11) Before Christmas, counsel David Forsdick said the City was not seeking to prevent lawful and peaceful protest or lawful assembly in the general location, but the right to protest enshrined in the European convention on human rights did not justify a semi-permanent campsite on the public highway – particularly in a location like St Paul's churchyard.
(12) Marchers are to assemble at St Mary’s Churchyard at Elephant and Castle or Shoreditch Church at midday and then proceed to City Hall.
(13) He is buried in a churchyard in Radlett alongside my grandparents.
(14) In a statement , St Paul's suggested that the protesters should consider the "risk to the life of the cathedral" posed by the encampment: "St Paul's cathedral stated on Monday that it was still trying to provide worship and welcome to all in spite of the presence of the protest camp in the churchyard.
(15) It’s a very unusual and exceptional place; the scenery is fantastic and Sylvia Plath’s grave is in its churchyard.
(16) It was Christmas Eve and I was alone in the nettled churchyard visiting the graves of my parents and their five infant children when a terrible man with a great iron on his leg leapt out in front of me.
(17) A former rector of St Mary’s Church used to mischievously direct tourists asking for the location of Count Dracula’s grave to a cracked tomb in the churchyard, its inscription long-since weathered away by the unforgiving salt-laden winds.
(18) Two leading clergymen at St Paul's have resigned over issues arising from the encampment: Giles Fraser, the former canon chancellor, stepped down at plans to forcibly evict protesters from the churchyard, and Graeme Knowles, the dean, resigned amid criticism over the cathedral's dramatic, albeit shortlived, closure to the public.
(19) Once at the top, he was in no hurry to descend, pointing out the Mount of Olives in the distance, the sun glinting on the dome of the Russian church, the Palestinian school, the Hebrew university, the gardens below with their pomegranate and fig trees and the rose and lavender beds that give the impression of an English country churchyard transplanted to the Middle East.
(20) In Oxford, however, the grooming, sexual torture and trafficking took place on the streets of the Cowley area of the city, in churchyards, parks, a guesthouse and empty flats procured for the purpose of drugging the girls and handing them around to be gang raped and brutalised.
Graveyard
Definition:
(n.) A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
(2) Between festivals, Hardee played cameo roles in TV comedies such as Blackadder and The Comic Strip, and ran his own comedy club, the Tunnel, which he had opened at the southern end of the Blackwall Tunnel in 1984; it acquired a fearsome reputation as a graveyard for aspiring standups.
(3) The first bluestones, the smaller standing stones, were brought from Wales and placed as grave markers around 3,000BC, and it remained a giant circular graveyard for at least 200 years, with sporadic burials after that, he claims.
(4) No wonder the former home secretary calls them the party of the graveyard."
(5) He agreed with the chancellor, George Osborne, who has warned about creating "the stability of the graveyard" when reforming banks.
(6) A solution – injecting the graves with a lime solution to speed up decomposition – was eventually discovered by a graveyard worker, who charged the Norwegian authorities $670 per plot.
(7) For days we kept running, hiding in the woods and sleeping in graveyards until we eventually reached the safety of Bosnian-controlled territory.
(8) As such, it sits queasily alongside more measured government responses, such as upgrading the Imperial War Museum in London and taking schoolchildren to see the battlefields and graveyards of France.
(9) More than 5,000 are buried in this graveyard, compelling an investigation into the circumstances surrounding its loss.
(10) Notoriously, the Home Office is the graveyard of political reputations, the department where ministers discover either their civil service or the law render them frustrated, powerless or railing about a department that is not fit for purpose.
(11) 'The positive critical reception, word of mouth and the rise of Nordic noir fiction has seen a snowball effect on the popularity of subtitled drama' The Returned Were it not for the success of The Killing et al, The Returned might have found itself quietly picking up a small but loyal audience in a graveyard slot on E4, or the network might have preferred to wait for the forthcoming US remake.
(12) The stretch of water between Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, and Antarctica is many a mariner’s graveyard.
(13) But it has become the graveyard of diplomatic ambition.
(14) "This is a very special place," says Hughes as he gives a tour of the church and graveyard.
(15) Now it is a ghost town of shattered glass and broken graveyard walls, bombed vegetable shops and decapitated blocks of flats.
(16) If true, it would be Isis’s first attack on a civilian crowd in Kabul, and its largest ever attack in Afghanistan, only months after the Afghan president boasted that the country would be a “graveyard” for Isis .
(17) The military has erected a wall around the 3,800 sq ft plot where the al-Qaida leader’s compound once stood in the garrison city of Abbottabad, and wants to convert it into a graveyard.
(18) In Chapter 1, for example, Pip recalls watching Magwitch pick his way through the graveyard brambles, "as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in".
(19) Bowie broke the silence in 2013 with The Next Day , a gnarly rock album spitting anger at warmongers, zombie celebrities and The Reaper with equal venom, as he prepares to “stumble to the graveyard and lay down by my parents”, adding archly, “just remember duckies, everybody gets got”.
(20) You can make it complicated – but I've had some great times in a graveyard on a picnic blanket, and, indeed, up against bins around the back of a club – and I'd like something of that very British, make-do spirit to be represented somewhere in British sex fiction in 2014.