How to Use burial in a Sentence

burial

noun

• 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.
• Two of the burial mounds had been looted, but one contained the ancient relics.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2024
• Their relatives delayed their burial in order to bury them with their two daughters, who were found the next day.
  — Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023
• Village provides is a memorial garden, where the ashes of those who have passed are placed in a burial column, with their names inscribed in granite.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• John mentions Chance during the burial of Lee in the Yellowstone pilot.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 5 Feb. 2023
• Parts of the burial grounds sit above the surface, but a shaft stretches down to an embalming room and burial chamber underground, where the jars were discovered.
  — Gabrielle Nolin, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2023
• Haniyeh's funeral will be held in Tehran tomorrow before his body is transferred to Qatar for burial on Friday.
  — Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 31 July 2024
• Guaranteed issue final expense insurance can pay for funeral and burial costs.
  — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024
• Step aside burial and cremation, a new bill would give Connecticut residents the option of a new after-death arrangement — composting.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2023
• Dozens more bodies wrapped in blankets or body bags sat in another area of the cemetery, awaiting inspection by the authorities before burial permission was granted.
  — Zeynep Karatas, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• The city experienced a spike in homicides, kidnappings, extortions, and clandestine burials.
  — Amy Reed-Sandoval, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
• This exhibit plunges spectators into the splendor of the Egyptian boy king’s rule, burial chamber and treasures via nine multi-sensory galleries.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2023
• Your spouse has additional rights as the statutory default decision-maker for you regarding such matters as medical, guardianship and burial.
  — Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Poets’ Corner, in the south transept, is famous as the burial place of writers.
  — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• The family has launched a GoFundMe to help with their burials.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 9 May 2023
• Lewis believes the land where the graves were found should be cleared and turned back into a cemetery, along with a plaque telling the story of the burial site.
  — Davi Merchan, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024