Examples of cemetery in a Sentence
many of the soldiers who died in the battle are buried in a cemetery nearby
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During the immediate postwar decades, veterans and their families began to establish veterans' cemeteries, hold memorial services for the dead, build monuments, conduct unit reunions and organize veterans' groups.
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Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2025
In modern-day Turkey, a cemetery dating to the early Bronze Age holds burials full of luxurious goods—and numerous human sacrifices.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
Today, jazz suffuses the city so completely that the genre is embedded in funeral traditions here, as brass bands often accompany mourners from the church to the cemetery in a celebratory display.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
Section 27: One of the oldest sections of the cemetery, Section 27 contains the gravesites of thousands of African Americans, including freedpeople and members of the United States Colored Troops.
—Doug Melville, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2025
In modern-day Turkey, a cemetery dating to the early Bronze Age holds burials full of luxurious goods—and numerous human sacrifices.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
Today, jazz suffuses the city so completely that the genre is embedded in funeral traditions here, as brass bands often accompany mourners from the church to the cemetery in a celebratory display.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
Section 27: One of the oldest sections of the cemetery, Section 27 contains the gravesites of thousands of African Americans, including freedpeople and members of the United States Colored Troops.
—Doug Melville, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Cemetery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cemetery. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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cemetery
noun
cem·e·tery
ˈsem-ə-ˌter-ē 
plural cemeteries
: a place where dead people are buried : graveyard
Etymology
Middle English cimitery "cemetery," from early French cimiterie (same meaning), from Latin coemeterium "cemetery," from Greek koimētērion "sleeping chamber, burial place," from koiman "to put to sleep"
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