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noun

cemetery

CEFR B2

a tract of land used for burials

In a sentence

Six example sentences with cemetery, each labelled with its topic.

  • The Victorian cemetery was laid out like a park, with winding gravel avenues, cypress rows, and a stone chapel.

    Architecture

  • Genealogists photograph every weathered marker in the village cemetery before the lettering disappears under another century of rain.

    Photography

  • Gray set his most famous poem in a country cemetery at dusk, among the plain graves of farmers.

    Literature

  • Paris opened a cemetery outside the walls in 1804 after the old churchyards had grown dangerously overfull.

    History

  • The walking tour ends at the old cemetery, where visitors leave stones on the poets' graves and pause at the composer's tomb.

    Travel

  • An old cemetery often shelters the last wildflower meadow in a town, since its grass has never been ploughed.

    Environment

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