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.
• 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

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024