(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.
Paradise
Definition:
(n.) The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.
(n.) The abode of sanctified souls after death.
(n.) A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.
(n.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
(n.) A churchyard or cemetery.
(v. t.) To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Losing paradise: the people displaced by atomic bombs, and now climate change Read more Climate change won’t be the only source of tension.
(2) "If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise.
(3) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(4) An otitis media with effusion algorithm developed by Paradise et al and tested by Cantekin et al has become the basis for many studies of otitis media.
(5) Spain is another go-getters’ paradise, it seems: with half an entire generation out of work, self-employment among the young has surged.
(6) Elements of behaviour were described for the paradise fish on the basis of the topography, location and orientation of the animal observed in various seminatural and laboratory environments.
(7) It seemed only a matter of time before a small number of them returned to see if it was possible to recreate what was described by their lawyer, Richard Gifford, as "paradise lost".
(8) People are now calling Paradise Square Hell Square.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children collect items from among the debris of a school for the deaf and mute, destroyed in what activists said were overnight US-led air strikes in Raqqa.
(9) • A chimp-trekking permit costs $90pp rwandatourism.com ) 12 Go barefoot in paradise: Likoma island, Malawi Kaya Mawa resort on Likoma Island, Malawi.
(10) If it does, give us the formula and make us a paradise country."
(11) "They tell me I am a great father, and that I will go straight to paradise."
(12) Okinawans finally want their sub-tropical island paradise back.
(13) There is an attempted raid on Ukraine, not from Moscow but Brussels, grabbing it by the neck and dragging it to paradise," he tweeted.
(14) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
(15) "He is the best of the best, a pure soul, he is in the best paradise.
(16) The Palestinian comedy team Watan a Watar have enjoyed huge success with their take on an Isis propaganda video featuring a roadblock and a quiz: incorrect answers mean instant execution but these jolly, bumbling jihadis win points to get them to Paradise.
(17) It's wonderful, actually, having scrutiny of the work, especially coming from New Zealand, where there's no reviewing culture at all, so London just seems like paradise."
(18) After decades dreaming of life among olive trees and vineyards, these days for some reason, we Brits are now projecting our need for the existence of an earthly paradise northwards.
(19) With beautiful parks, a world class zoo, great public transportation and year round festivals this place would be paradise if it were not for the sweltering summers.
(20) Speaking a week after his youngest brother, Jaffar, 17 , was killed storming a Syrian government checkpoint, Deghayes said: “I cant afford to leave jihad and the journey to jannah [paradise].” Jaffar is the youngest known Briton to have died during the gruesome three-year conflict.