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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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- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
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- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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