How to Use burial in a Sentence

burial

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  • Did you attend the burial?
  • They prepared the body for burial.
  • She wanted to give him a proper burial.
  • The law prohibits the burial of toxic substances without special permits.
  • Their father works as the village gravedigger, but this burial was too much for him.
    — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 15 May 2022
  • The update shared on his page stated that information about his wake and burial would be released soon.
    — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Based on the coins’ composition—copper alloy and traces of silver—the treasure wouldn’t have gone far at the time of its burial.
    — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
  • Sometime in the last 500 years, lightning struck the burial site, burning away most of the soft tissue from one of the bodies.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 16 May 2022
  • The others were carved into the rock with an above-ground structure and a well, or vertical shaft, leading into the burial chamber.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The coffin was rocked and pushed back into the hospital before it was allowed to leave towards its final burial site in the Mount Zion cemetery.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • Her body was to be taken to Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian government, before burial in Jerusalem.
    — Joseph Krauss, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • Ahead of the burial, a large crowd gathered to escort her casket from an east Jerusalem hospital to a Catholic church in the nearby Old City.
    — Time, 14 May 2022
  • Pritzker said that because Mychal’s mother, Angela Gregg, could not afford to pay for his burial, his body was cremated.
    — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2022
  • Twenty-three other graves, possibly indicating a familial or community burial site, were found nearby.
    — Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • At the burial site, a voodoo priest cleanses the gang with smoke.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • In 2020, the first burials in over a decade took place at the cemetery.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 July 2024
  • These burials are along the edges of the mounds, leaving much of the center of the mounds untouched.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The first explosion was near Soleimani’s burial place, and the second near the shrine.
    — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • His full name was later added on a space left open at the time of his burial.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2024
  • His full name has since been engraved on a space left open at the time of his burial.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The cave was discovered in the late 1950s and is believed to be a burial place.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2024
  • The burial sites were likely used for 800 years, according to the team.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
  • At the time of the burials, the region was home to a people whom the Greeks dubbed the Illyrians.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2024
  • That familiar phrase is found in an order for the burial of the dead.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Among the more prominent movements is that of the green burial.
    — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
  • As Kidane had noted, the guards wrapped corpses in muslin and took them into the desert for burial.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The next question was why the young woman had been granted such a rich burial.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • Two of the burial mounds had been looted, but one contained the ancient relics.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2024
  • After the service, Sweeney takes the casket or urn to the cemetery for burial.
    — Mike Winters,gene Kim, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The live hostages must come home to be physically and psychologically rehabilitated, and the deceased must return to have proper and respectful burials.
    — Rachel Goldberg-Polin, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025

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