How to Use interment in a Sentence

interment

noun
  • About 20% of the interment rights in the garden have been sold.
    Cindy Heflin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2019
  • In Catholic tradition, there isn’t a time frame for interment, just that the body be blessed.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The body is washed and shrouded, and then taken for interment.
    USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The flags will be lowered until sunset on the day of his interment.
    Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • But Nicholas' uncle missed the funeral and, instead, got a pickax and broke the stone's hold on the ground in time for the interment.
    cincinnati.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • For each of them, the interment of Dickens in the abbey might be considered the highlight of their careers.
    Leon Litvack, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Having a police escort made for a smoother ride to the interment.
    Benjy Egel, sacbee, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Reynolds will order flags in Iowa be flown at half-staff on the day of Smith's interment, the statement from her office said.
    Hollie Silverman, CNN, 11 Apr. 2021
  • The interment will be held after the service at the Astor Park Cemetery.
    Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The flags will be at half-staff until his interment, which will be announced at a later date.
    al, 25 June 2021
  • The interment service was somber and quiet as twilight fell on the harbor.
    Shaun McKinnon, azcentral, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Flags are to remain at half-staff until the end of the day of his final interment and should return to full staff the following day.
    David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Socrates, a pet rat that died eight months ago, and three others now sit in her kitchen freezer, awaiting interment.
    Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2018
  • A reception will be held after the service at the school and interment will private.
    Associated Press, Washington Post, 29 May 2017
  • The flags in Connecticut will remain at half staff until sunset on the date of interment.
    Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2022
  • But the encounter went no further, and the momentary pause in their war of words seemed unlikely to last beyond the interment.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2016
  • The details of the interment sometimes enable us to guess at why a particular dog was buried.
    Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Last year, the city decided to turn over control to Parks though DOC still manages the property and interments.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 11 Apr. 2020
  • A service will be held at the church at 11 a.m., followed by interment services at Elmhurst Cemetery in Joliet.
    Alicia Fabbre, Daily Southtown, 1 May 2017
  • The local council of the Knights of Columbus, of which both are members, helped raise money for the interment and donated a marker for the potter’s field.
    Tim Trainor, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Skuodas came from Lithuania and spent six childhood years in an interment camp in Germany.
    Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The flags shall will remain lowered until sunset on the date of interment, which has not been determined.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
  • If no changes are made, the cemetery is on course to run out of space for new interments by the mid 2050s, including for Medal of Honor recipients.
    NBC News, 25 Sep. 2019
  • A few days before the interment, the chaplain conducting the service, Navy Lt. Cmdr.
    Joe Heim, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Though not often remembered these days, the interment was a massive event.
    Andrew Thomas, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Interments represent 16 foreign countries and at least 26 states in the Union.
    Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 31 May 2017
  • The lawsuit makes claims including breach of contract and a denial of a common law right of peaceful interment.
    Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 28 July 2022
  • Flags shall remain lowered until sunset on the day of Yates's interment.
    The Enquirer, 25 July 2022
  • On Friday, Hogan ordered state flags flown at half-staff until Mitchell’s interment.
    Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • It likely was created in a later time period, and the pelvis of the remains, believed to be from a 35- to 45-year-old man, had been removed and replaced with interment jars, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024

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