graveside - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • leave: After the interment, the dog refused to leave the graveside.

Modifies a noun

  • service: They provided a very small casket, as well as a short graveside service with the priest.
  • ceremony: The funeral was a simple, sad graveside ceremony with just the Chaplain and the four of us.
  • oration: No graveside oration, only the tears in the eyes of a husband as final tribute.

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