(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.
Sexton
Definition:
(n.) An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gap would have been closer had Sexton not missed those consecutive kicks but the fly-half was back on track in the 61st minute and Ireland had passed their Welsh target with O’Brien about to reach out for his second try that the replacement fly-half Ian Madigan converted.
(2) Richard Sexton, director of business development at surveyor e.surv , said the CML figures masked the true picture of what was happening to the housing market nationwide: "It is bad news that overall house purchase lending was so weak in July, but the good news is that it has not turned out to be a UK-wide phenomenon.
(3) Sexton converted for 17-3 after 25 minutes, which could have been worse had Hogg not performed his second try-saving act before being at the heart of the Scottish try.
(4) He explains in detail how opportunities came about in his early days at Fulham and Chelsea, name-checks everyone who has influenced his coaching career, from Dave Sexton through to Carlo Ancelotti, the Real Madrid manager who is sitting alongside him at the Spanish club's training ground, and stresses over and again the importance of learning.
(5) Richard Sexton, a director at e.surv, said: “This is a trend which started at the end of last year and has continued into 2017.
(6) Sam Sexton Kenilworth, Warwickshire • George Monbiot ( Comment , 9 September) paints a sunny picture of a nation united in the struggle to free itself from foreign domination, ready to emerge on to the level playing fields of independence.
(7) Richard Sexton, director of e.surv, said the first-time buyer market was "alive and kicking again" and confidence was returning to the housing market.
(8) Commenting on the BBA figures, Richard Sexton director of chartered surveyors e.surv, said: “Borrowers finally have more money in their pockets as inflation remains limited and wages are experiencing a tangible rise.
(9) In the Australian on Monday, Michael Sexton, a legal academic and New South Wales solicitor general, also called for the changes to go ahead.
(10) "Wilf McGuinness, Frank O'Farrell and Dave Sexton never managed it and Tommy Docherty took us into Division Two before finding the magic formula.
(11) Richard Sexton, business development director at chartered surveyors e.surv, said: "The market is still very delicate at the moment.
(12) History shows Andrew Sexton Gray to have been a founder of Australian ophthalmology.
(13) In her poem "Rapunzel," Anne Sexton maps out a model of lesbian etiology that at once parodies the model proposed by Freud and significantly amends it.
(14) "In February 2013, immediately after the revelations about horse meat, total supermarket organic sales increased to their highest level in nine months, indicating a growing desire among consumers for food that they can trust," Sexton said.
(15) Sexton says, perfectly accurately, that FLS has been like a "course of steroids" for the mortgage market.
(16) She said something like, "Anne Sexton is dead – she's done it too," and some floor of some world seemed to fall away from under us, and keep falling and falling.
(17) The female pre-Oedipal phase is crucially at stake in such a comparison, as Sexton's account suggests that the pleasures of the pre-Oedipal mother-daughter dyad are dangerously strong for the girl child, and seem to be the force that compels the majority of girls into the rechanneling of libidinal desire from the mother to the father.
(18) Literary editor David Sexton will also contribute to the TV column.
(19) Sexton added the conversion – off the left upright, further suggesting that what luck there was might be going Ireland’s way – and the holders were seven points up in six minutes and 10 after 10 minutes – the Welsh differential halved – when Sexton landed his first penalty.
(20) Richard Sexton, business development director of e.surv , said: "With the economy in peril from every angle, lenders are playing it safe and training their sights on wealthier borrowers.