cemetery - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • excavate: She tested tissue from 134 naturally preserved bodies from an excavated cemetery in the Sudan, once part of the Egyptian empire.
  • situate: Probably the most beautifully situated cemetery in the world.

Adjective modifier

  • Anglo-Saxon: Based on remains found in a grave at Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery.
  • communal: The communal cemetery over the road had a fascinating plaque on the wall.
  • romano-british: This has never been observed in a Romano-British cemetery before, and only very rarely elsewhere in the empire.
  • Anglian: An Anglian cemetery dating from 500AD was found near here containing a royal grave.

Modifies a noun

  • chapel: You can hold the funeral service in a local church or in a cemetery chapel.
  • gate: Alternatively, walk to Blacknor along the track serving the old Fort, starting by the cemetery gates.
  • :-: Among those buried in this cemetery:- DYE, Private HARRY.

Noun used with modifier

  • cremation: Expectations of what a cremation cemetery could involve had changed.
  • commonwealth: And finally, as dusk fell, to Tyne Cot, the biggest Commonwealth cemetery in the World.
  • Anglo-Saxon: Sherlock, SJ & Welch, MG 1992 An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Norton, Cleveland.

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