graveyard

Example Sentences

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He drove to Arizona from his native California after determining that no other streamer had taken the graveyard shift on the Guthrie beat, and he plans on streaming the residence deep into the night.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026

But when police raided the animal rescue centre in Crays Hill, near Billericay in Essex, they discovered a mass graveyard.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

Fears of ending up in some unemployment graveyard mean workers hold on to lower wages or jobs they hate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

The ISS is set to be decommissioned after 2030, with its orbit gradually lowered until it breaks up in the atmosphere over a remote part of the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo, a spacecraft graveyard.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

The graveyard is completely silent, and a thin fog hovers just off the ground, making the tombstones look like they’re floating in clouds.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish