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Examples

His father is buried in the cemetery on the hill.他的父亲葬在山上的墓地里。
We came across a run-down cemetery, full of tumbled gravestones.
At the far side of the cemetery a group of mourners stood in a circle around the grave.
He goes down to the cemetery every week to lay flowers on her grave.
He is in charge of a large municipal cemetery on the outskirts of the city.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Places where bodies are buried or cremated
burial ground
catacomb
charnel house
churchyard
columbarium
crematorium
crematory
crypt
grave
graveside
graveyard
mausoleum
necropolis
ossuary
pyre
resting place
sepulchre
the pyramidsphrase
tomb
vault

Examples from literature

All of my dead relatives are in the same cemetery. 
For years afterward, people visiting Floyd’s grave would steal things from the small cemetery to keep as a memory. 
It is a giant cemetery filled with tombs, some over a thousand years old. 
The residents are very poor people who would find it difficult to leave or buy a home outside the cemetery. 
Traditionally, they begin in a house of worship and continue to a cemetery where the body is buried in the ground. 
Duty took me to the cemetery a few days after the burial, and I noticed standing at the graveside with uncovered and bowed head a soldier of the battalion. 
Hella went for a walk round the cemetery while I went to darling Mother's grave. 
There I perceived that the tombstone had just been raised, for the tools of the cemetery keeper were near by. 
They laid him to rest in the nearest Protestant cemetery, for such had been his request. 
We went into the field which was used as a cemetery and there we laid the bodies to rest. 

cemetery | American Dictionary

cemetery
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsem·ɪˌter·i/
an area of ground in which dead bodies are buried

Examples of cemetery

cemetery
Indeed, this article demonstrates that the subdued uniformity of the lawn cemetery is far more eloquent than is commonly supposed.
I only wish to remark that these heathland reclamations were responsible for the destruction of the vast majority of barrow cemeteries.
This elimination of old cemeteries was not the result of a profanisation and a growing economic interpretation of space by medieval man.
In this instance, the cemetery's attorneys almost welcomed defeat as a way to end their ' ' untenable legal position.
The proposals include the realignment of the cemetery with the geometry of the church, and the creation of a new public space outside the convent.
It is also important that we can compare the contrasting biographies of houses, cemeteries, land divisions and enclosures.
They include elaborate reconstructions of landscape genesis, systematic regional surveys and large-scale excavations of settlements and cemeteries.
It's a very well arranged cemetery with a beautiful array of tombstones.
Fortunately, cemetery managers were not generally resistant to cremation.
Its initial development reflected a rationale for cemetery landscapes that demonstrated an understated, stoic and emotionally even response to mortality.
Regulations in this regard appeared to be a natural progression as local authorities extended their existing cemeteries.
In both versions, she quotes her character wondering what a group of people were doing in a cemetery late at night.
I mentioned that our work was structured around two pairs of cemeteries and settlements.
It is rather the ideological landscape that is markedly present in the early votive deposits and cemetery groups.
The general theme is that the witches and cats used the cemeteries for their nocturnal meetings and dances.
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Collocations withcemetery

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ancient cemetery
In addition, close to the modern harbour, the remains of an ancientcemetery are visible, having been discovered recently during non-archaeological excavations.
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