How to Use burial ground in a Sentence

burial ground

noun
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  • According to Dan, the house sat on the site of a sacred Lenape burial ground.
    — Martha McPhee, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
  • For one thing, the dimensions of the still-growing burial ground are not yet known.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • The plaster would have made the burial ground gleam white, a unique and permanent feature in the landscape.
    — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The cemetery, which sits at the foot of Belleau Wood, is the burial ground of more than 2,000 American soldiers killed during the war.
    — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 9 June 2024
  • This beautiful cay gets its name from its past as an age-old Protestant burial ground.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Unearthed during a pre-construction dig for a solar energy plant, the burial ground lies on a 52-acre plot of land north of Rome.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The burial ground includes more than 20 barrows, or circular mounds.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • Rumored to be on top of a burial ground is the Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana, which is the home to at least 12 different ghosts.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 June 2023
  • Yet the zoo is not the only Birmingham historic burial ground that has been lost to modern development.
    — Joseph D. Bryant | [email protected], al, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The museum also holds the remains of five enslaved Black people that were removed from a New York burial ground during a road construction project in the early 1900s, the letter said.
    — Justin Gamble, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • An ancient Roman burial ground filled with treasure has been discovered in central Italy.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
  • While installing a water line last week, a Toronto construction crew came across human remains from a 700-year-old Indigenous burial ground.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Betts’ original cut opened on an establishing shot of a tree in a grassy field, which is later revealed to be an unmarked burial ground for America’s enslaved Africans.
    — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Look inside Atop a nearby hill, excavations uncovered a huge burial ground linked to the settlement.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 July 2024
  • It is believed to have once been a pagan burial ground and is now supposedly haunted by more than 20 spirits, including several children and a monk.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2023
  • He was buried in a hilltop ceremony in the Paris suburb, where hundreds of people lined the road to pay tribute as his white casket was carried from a mosque to the burial ground, The Associated Press reported.
    — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 2 July 2023
  • As morning light crept over the southern region of Khan Younis, Gazans who had been sheltering nearby from an intense overnight attack and area residents were visibly distressed at the sight of the old Muslim burial ground.
    — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Railway construction in Italy uncovered a 1,700-year-old Roman settlement and burial ground.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 July 2024
  • The presence of a cauldron, decorated pottery, utensils and an ax for cutting meat suggests the site was not just a burial ground but also the location of a lavish funerary banquet and ritual.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
  • The burial ground, a crucial historical resource, was first discovered and dedicated in 2001.
    — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Bloodlines fleshes out the backstory of the character of Jud Crandall, whose early experience with a haunted burial ground was briefly related in King’s book, but hasn’t previously been depicted in detail onscreen.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Syria is also the burial ground for the ambitions of a never-ending series of intermediaries, diplomats, tactical interventions, and would-be peacemakers.
    — Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
  • After the ceremony, my relatives hiked down the hill because, in Buddhist practice, it is considered disrespectful to witness an ancestor’s burial ground being disturbed.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023

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