‘I have seen the graves of the Indian soldiers in the military cemeteries of France.’.‘The relatives of all those buried in the graveyards had decorated their graves for the occasion.’.‘He died apparently in poverty and was buried in a pauper's grave.’.‘Beads have been excavated in large numbers from early period female Viking graves.’.‘I found my mother's grave had been knocked over and saw others had been vandalised too.’.‘Family members gather and visit the graves of their ancestors to burn offerings of paper money and incense.’.‘If you ever visit Canada take a day to visit the graves of our beloved ancestors.’.‘Burial is in local cemeteries, and family graves are well tended.’.

‘Tommy was laid to rest in the family grave in the adjoining cemetery.’.‘Visiting a war grave is something everyone should endeavour to do at one point in life.’.‘The body was buried in an unmarked grave in the town cemetery.’.‘Mass graves were dug on the outskirts of the city for thousands of the bodies.’.‘The unmarked mass graves have been watched and revered by them for decades.’.‘They would put cash gifts towards updating the stone at the grave where Evelyn was buried with her husband and daughter.’.‘The unadorned stones had marked the graves of unidentified Confederate soldiers.’.‘Marking graves with stones was one of the characteristics that continued through centuries and religions.’.‘Most of the missing are believed to be buried in mass graves, and several mass grave sites have already been found and exhumed.’.‘With the other executed rebels, his body was put into a mass grave with no coffin.’.

Graven definition