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graveyard - use in sentences
Converse of object
- overcrowd: Indeed, by the 1850s there was widespread concern over the " threat to health and decency " caused by the overcrowded graveyards.
- overgrow: I led a community project with the Princes Trust, clearing an overgrown graveyard which was thought to be used by drug users.
- surround: The upper parts of the surrounding graveyard offer some magnificent views of this end of the island.
- visit: Whenever I've visited this quaint graveyard there have always been the remnants of such a wreath.
- enter: He also felt the presence of spirit children when he first entered the graveyard.
Preposition: at
- night: What happends in the book is Tom and Huck go into the graveyard at night to cure warts.
Adjective modifier
- ancient: A visit to Dunblane's magnificent Cathedral would be incomplete without a wander round its ancient graveyard.
- historic: The Howff burial ground is a historic graveyard given to the people of Dundee by Mary, Queen of Scots.
- old: Should Brackley's old graveyard be turned into a skate park?
- quiet: Our ghost-hunting investigations thus far have involved meandering around quiet graveyards at night taking digital photos of orbs.
- former: The best view of the church with its tower is now from the bypass that cuts through its former graveyard.
Modifies a noun
- shift: Would love to see him working the graveyard shift at some 7/11.
- slot: Season Two ran on Carlton alone in the same graveyard slot in 1996.
- extension: Conifers around edge of graveyard extension south of church.
- scene: The graveyard scene at the end of the play is one of the finest pieces of writing I have ever read.
- wall: Close to the church entrance is a pathway, which runs past the side of the graveyard wall.
Noun used with modifier
- famine: Day 6 - Donegal to Galway We head south through county Sligo which inspired the writing of WB Yeats and visit a famine graveyard.
- parish: The remains of Preston Church are in the parish graveyard which lies about 600m south west of the village of Preston.
- church: Be buried in the family plot in the church graveyard.
Preposition: of
- church: Across the path to the E, the detached graveyard of the church, entered through a small Jacobean gateway crowned with three obelisks.
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