How to Use burial in a Sentence

burial

noun
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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.
  • Are bocce players on the long court bowling over burial sites?
    — Christina Ray Stanton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Among the more prominent movements is that of the green burial.
    — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Meanwhile, Felder didn’t think much about his hat after the burial.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • There would be autopsies at one of a half dozen local morgues, and only then could a body be handed over for burial.
    — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Nika would've turned 17 on Tuesday, one day after her burial.
    — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2022
  • And California will soon have a new end-of-life burial option: human composting.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Traditional burial requires tons of steel, concrete and land that must be watered and maintained in perpetuity.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Meanwhile, a GoFundMe page had been established by the father of the two children to help pay for burial expenses.
    — Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
  • His mother continues to be awed by the devotion of her son’s fans, who continue to visit his burial site in Los Angeles.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Antiwar sentiment could harden as the bodies of soldiers who were deployed just weeks earlier begin returning home for burial.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Unlike in the film, the house is reportedly not the traditional haunted house, as it is not built on ancient burial grounds or has a long history of inhabitants.
    — Fox News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 archaeologists trekked along the riverbed and spotted burial sites along the way to the top of one of the mountains.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Poets’ Corner, in the south transept, is famous as the burial place of writers.
    — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023

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