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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.

Tomb


Definition:

  • (n.) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
  • (n.) A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.
  • (n.) A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.
  • (v. t.) To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
  • (2) "The minutes of August's MPC meeting, revealing the first split interest rate vote since July 2011, indicate that a 2014 rate hike cannot be ruled out," said Samuel Tombs, senior UK economist at Capital Economics .
  • (3) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
  • (4) Ian Livingstone is not all that keen on being photographed near the life-sized model of Lara Croft in his study – even though he was largely responsible for launching her on the world nearly 20 years ago, and the heroine of the Tomb Raider video games, comics and films helped to make his fortune.
  • (5) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
  • (6) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
  • (7) The MPC likely will place much more weight at next week’s meeting on the weak official data for the first quarter than on April’s better PMIs, and we expect Kristin Forbes to remain alone in voting to raise interest rates,” said Samuel Tombs, the chief UK economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics.
  • (8) I have this fantastic job, but at the same time I can go and interview Hamid Karzai and go to Arundel tomb, and you can't do that if you're mayor of London.
  • (9) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
  • (10) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
  • (11) Samuel Tombs at Capital Economics said cost pressures cast some doubt over recovery.
  • (12) Samuel Tombs, UK economist at consultancy Capital Economics, said: “There is little merit in economic terms of tying your hands so far in the future.
  • (13) Life imprisonment, he said, was like living in a tomb .
  • (14) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
  • (15) If you go to the tomb of Martin Luther King in Atlanta, the parallels are obvious and deliberate.
  • (16) "Some people built tombs to steal archaeology, definitely," said 28-year-old Walid Ibrahim, picnicking on the boundary between the old and new cemeteries.
  • (17) The energy required for motility of sea urchin sperm is transported from the mitochondrion to the flagellum by a phosphocreatine shuttle involving diffusion of phosphocreatine (PCr) between isozymes of creatine kinase (CrK) localized at the two sites (Tombes and Shapiro, Cell, 41:325, '85; Tombes et al., Biophys.
  • (18) With tourism decimated since the ousting of Mohamed Morsi as president in July, Egyptian authorities hope the new tomb will help bring visitors back to Luxor.
  • (19) Nearly 200 square metres have been excavated and 50 lorries lined up to remove material, but it was not clear on Thursday whether Iranian forces had reached the point of unearthing tombs.
  • (20) Now the physical intervention is about to start.” The chapel above the tomb where Christ is believed to have been buried and resurrected is in danger of collapse.

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