graveyard
IPA: grˈeɪvjɑrd
noun
- A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
- (figuratively, by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
- (collectible card games) The discard pile, in some trading card games.
- (sports) A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
- (attributively) A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.
- (US, slang) Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”)
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Examples of "graveyard" in Sentences
- There was a makeshift graveyard.
- A graveyard is around the church.
- Also on the property is a graveyard.
- As if it is a graveyard, not a village.
- The church graveyard is to the rear of the church.
- They concoct a plan and lure Tyler into the graveyard.
- Southern Cemetery is a huge Victorian graveyard, spanning 40 hectares.
- Fone is climbing down the huge gorge in the middle of the dragons' graveyard.
- Troops lived on a field sodden by rain, part garbage dump and part graveyard.
- Summoned from the graveyard it returns to the graveyard at the end of the turn.
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