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.
• Rip is finishing up at the burial site, putting his former boss and friend in the ground, and saying his own goodbyes.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2024
• The reservation plans to repatriate remains that are found to their home communities for proper burial.
  — Hira Humayun, CNN, 25 July 2022
• Hundreds of mourners gathered at the churches for the funerals, before taking the bodies for burial in nearby cemeteries.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 14 Aug. 2022
• Holcomb asked Hoosiers to begin flying flags at half-staff immediately and until the date of Walorski's burial.
  — Hannah Brock, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2022
• One of the suit’s loudest critics is Billy Campbell, a cofounder of the first conservation burial ground in the US.
  — William Ralston, Wired, 26 July 2022
• The monuments were deeply significant, serving as sites for human burial, feasting, and other ceremonies and rituals.
  — Ashley Braun, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2022
• To date, the Colonial Williamsburg archaeology team has identified a total of 41 burial shafts.
  — Jacquelyne Germain, CNN, 7 Aug. 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
• 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 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
• The family has launched a GoFundMe to help with their burials.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 9 May 2023
• Similarly, ancient Greek and Roman mourners often carried sprigs of rosemary in funeral processions and placed them on the body of the deceased at the burial site.
  — Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025