burial ground
Frequency: 7.814.5 per million words
an area of land, not next to a church, where people are buried
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Examples (10)
- Archaeologists discovered an ancient burial ground dating back to the Iron Age.
- This area is a sacred burial ground and must be treated with respect.
- Construction was halted when they unearthed a forgotten burial ground.
- The tribe is fighting to protect their ancestral burial ground from developers.
- Local legends say the old burial ground is haunted.
- There is a small, unmarked burial ground on the hill overlooking the valley.
- The city has designated this land as a new, non-denominational burial ground.
- Did they know they were building on a historical burial ground?
- For centuries, the local community used this field as a communal burial ground, long before the first church was built.
- Volunteers are working to clean up and preserve the historic burial ground.