Churchyards is valid Scrabble Word

Is churchyards a scrabble word?
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Words with Friends YES

11 letters word
25 points in Scrabble
25 points in WWF

Definitions for CHURCHYARDS in dictionary:

NOUN:

CHURCHYARD, a yard that belongs to a church and is often used as a burial ground
an enclosed area surrounding a church, especially as used for burials.

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How to use CHURCHYARDS in a sentence

In like manner he overcame the ghostly terrors instilled in the nursery, by midnight visits to churchyards and uncanny places.
In churchyards, by the side of roads, and on the open downs, they remain solitary and neglected.
Along the road and in the churchyards the preachers and deacons were in black cloth, sweating as they walked, their faces beatudinized as in America.
They buried their dead, not in lonely spots and obscure churchyards as we do, but where the life of the city was gayest.
The churchyards were soon overflowing, and special plague pits had to be dug where the dead were heaped up by the hundred.
Upon reviewing what has been written I think it better here to add a few favourable specimens such as are ordinarily found in our country church-yards at this day.
We slept as we could, some in houses, some in churchyards and by the wayside, and as many of us as could get into the churches heard mass each day.
During the Georgian period it was common enough to see churchyards which might have served as pictures of dreariness and gloom.
The Council of Elvin, in Spain, forbade the lighting of tapers in churchyards, lest it should disturb the souls of the deceased buried there.
On festive and holy days at this period of the year, people strewed the graves of their relatives and the churchyards with evergreens.

The overcrowded state of churchyards and burial grounds gradually led to the passing of a group of statutes known as the Burial Acts, extending from 1852 up to 1900.
The tree was planted frequently by our forefathers in churchyards, because of its value in the manufacture of bows.
From the sea and the sod, from foreign graves and English churchyards, they start up and throng around us in the paleness of their fall.
Of all things, I should like to find a gravestone in one of these old churchyards with my own name upon it, although, for myself, I should wish to be buried in America.
This is especially the case at Richmond and Twickenham, but of the great number of eighteenth-century stones in both churchyards there are few very remarkable.
But they cannot have existed in the precincts of the early Christian churches of this country, because the churches had no churchyards for several centuries.
The churchyards even then were not enclosed, but it was usual to mark their sacred character by erecting stone crosses, many of which, or their remains, are still in existence.
In both churchyards are many eighteenth-century stones in excellent preservation.
Districts comprising many parishes may be pointed out with all their old churches in the midst of their old churchyards, but without one old gravestone standing.
Most of the memorials in the churchyards were constructed of slate, which abundant material is devoted to every conceivable purpose.
Several such are to be seen in German churchyards long since converted to purposes of recreation, and one at Heidelberg may be taken as an example.
In the churchyards the gravestones, instead of bearing the names of the deceased, were all numbered, and the names were registered in a book kept for the purpose.
Such lights are common in church-yards, and are probably of a phosphoric nature.
Cemeteries and churchyards are now as carefully ornamented in Scotland as in England.
They were enacted in monasteries, cathedrals, churches, and church-yards.

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