How to Use burial ground in a Sentence

burial ground

noun
  • The site looked more like an overgrown forest than a burial ground.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • There are a lot of guys who have left a big, immense elephants’ burial ground.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The park service won’t treat the area as sacred or as a burial ground or cemetery.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
  • For one thing, the dimensions of the still-growing burial ground are not yet known.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • In the film, a cat is hit by a car and resurrected via a secret burial ground.
    — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
  • This beautiful cay gets its name from its past as a Protestant burial ground.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2026
  • This beautiful cay gets its name from its past as an age-old Protestant burial ground.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Maybe the fourpiece was tipped off that the venue was once Paddington Cemetery, a burial ground.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2025
  • One of the graves at the burial ground, appears to contain evidence of such a practice.
    — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • According to Dan, the house sat on the site of a sacred Lenape burial ground.
    — Martha McPhee, Vogue, 8 Sep. 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
  • There was also the time that it was used as a burial ground for some of the town’s earliest inhabitants.
    — Sarah Kyrcz, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • The burial ground includes more than 20 barrows, or circular mounds.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • The city’s military cemetery filled so quickly that officials recently had to open a new burial ground just weeks ago.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026
  • Subsequent research and excavations found the site also served as a burial ground.
    — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • An ancient Roman burial ground filled with treasure has been discovered in central Italy.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Since there wasn’t any grant funding available to preserve the burial ground, Jackson reached out to members of the community for help.
    — Sade Green, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
  • According to tour operator Nā Pali Riders, it was once used as a burial ground for chiefs.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Its above-ground tombs tell centuries of stories and offer a striking visual unlike any other American burial ground.
    — Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Look inside Atop a nearby hill, excavations uncovered a huge burial ground linked to the settlement.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 July 2024
  • None of this surprising given the plantation is said to be built atop a Tunica Indian burial ground.
    — Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Officials aren’t sharing information about the specifics of the site where the remains were stolen, other than to add that the burial ground was likely a sheltered site, such as an alcove or cave.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Perhaps even worse is the horrifying relatability, as the bereaved father ignores the warnings and buries his dead child in an ancient burial ground.
    — James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • And while the home in the film was built over an indigenous tribe's burial ground, the real property was positioned near sacred Native American soil as well.
    — Julie Jordan, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Islam only became widespread in Central Asia in the 13th century, and the burial ground is likely of that period.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
  • 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

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