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词汇 boneyard
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Definition of boneyard in English:

boneyard

nounˈbəʊnjɑːdˈboʊnjɑrd
informal
  • A cemetery.

    〈非正式〉墓地, 公墓

    it was a seventeenth-century boneyard, the oldest in the city
    figurative his plate was a boneyard of sandwich crusts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • John Knox stares stonily down at me from his plinth at the top of the boneyard.
    • The woman and I walked down the road between the boneyard and the nuthouse this morning and headed into the garden allotments.
    • They are particularly keen on the Necropolis, the old boneyard that sprawls across the boundary between city centre and east end.
    • There's a whole craft industry based on vehicles for transferring corpses from the chapel to the boneyard.
    • Soon we were speeding across the near-shore shoal, a shallow boneyard of rocks and coral heads.
    • So the parent company decided last week to fill the last orders and send Reel.com to the Web boneyard.
    • This sense of boyish innocence and hope helps define The Devil's Backbone as something more than just your average trip to the boneyard.
    • And in Strut, two vicious-looking dogs occupy a vague terrain in which a pair of skulls suggest a boneyard where the dogs have eaten their fill.
    • The actual nuts and bolts of the implementation must rest with agencies that own or support a product, from concept to boneyard.
    • But it's Thornley's fast and loose definition of celebrity that makes his boneyard Baedeker such a quirky read.

Definition of boneyard in US English:

boneyard

nounˈbōnyärdˈboʊnjɑrd
informal
  • A cemetery.

    〈非正式〉墓地, 公墓

    it was a seventeenth-century boneyard, the oldest in the city
    figurative his plate was a boneyard of sandwich crusts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The woman and I walked down the road between the boneyard and the nuthouse this morning and headed into the garden allotments.
    • There's a whole craft industry based on vehicles for transferring corpses from the chapel to the boneyard.
    • And in Strut, two vicious-looking dogs occupy a vague terrain in which a pair of skulls suggest a boneyard where the dogs have eaten their fill.
    • This sense of boyish innocence and hope helps define The Devil's Backbone as something more than just your average trip to the boneyard.
    • They are particularly keen on the Necropolis, the old boneyard that sprawls across the boundary between city centre and east end.
    • John Knox stares stonily down at me from his plinth at the top of the boneyard.
    • So the parent company decided last week to fill the last orders and send Reel.com to the Web boneyard.
    • The actual nuts and bolts of the implementation must rest with agencies that own or support a product, from concept to boneyard.
    • But it's Thornley's fast and loose definition of celebrity that makes his boneyard Baedeker such a quirky read.
    • Soon we were speeding across the near-shore shoal, a shallow boneyard of rocks and coral heads.
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