graveyard

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  1. noun A burial ground; a cemetery.
  2. noun A place where worn-out or obsolete equipment or objects are kept: an automobile graveyard.

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  • South of the graveyard was a fence, and behind the fence was a cluster of two-story buildings made of weathered cedar. —  Without Fail by Lee Child
  • But as the weeks went on and the photographs accumulated, Homer realized that the graveyard was a spring haunt, just like the school had been in the winter. —  EQMM,July2008
  • There in the center of the graveyard was a glittering bush-and there on the bush glittered a single pair of tiny lenses. —  The Color of Her Panties
  • It began to be a house that was avoided by the tender-minded—some church bought a lot diagonally opposite for a graveyard, and this, combined with “the place where Mrs. Curtain stays with that living corpse,” was enough to throw a ghostly aura over that quarter of the road. —  Tales of the Jazz Age
  • The very conditions that make Israel and its American backer so determined to enforce the "peace and quiet" of the graveyard is another indication of the potential strengths Palestinians are leaving untapped today. —  Kasama
 

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