How to Use bury in a Sentence

bury

verb
  • The dog buried her bone.
  • The disclaimer was buried in the fine print.
  • He buried the money in the backyard.
  • She buried her face in her hands.
  • He has learned to bury his feelings.
  • Their ancestors are buried in the local cemetery.
  • The newspaper covered the story, but it was buried in the back of section C.
  • He was buried with full military honors.
  • The last person buried on top of one of the mounds was laid to rest in the 1960s.
    Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Use a pie plate or bury a plastic yogurt or margarine container almost to the rim.
    oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Hull spent about $3,000 to produce, transport and bury the giant.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Dung from other animals, such as bears and monkeys, contains seeds that the beetles bury underground.
    Kimberly S. Sheldon, The Conversation, 9 Nov. 2022
  • He was accused of helping bury the student and digging up the remains and moving them years later, prosecutors said.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Back at Necker Island, the boys (along with their cousins and Princess Diana's sister), bury the royal in the sand.
    Janaya Wecker, Good Housekeeping, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The choices, then, were either to keep the runs temporarily off limits or abandon snowmaking for the rest of the season and bury the components.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Villagers must often cross international boundaries to attend school, visit their ancestral mosques, bury their dead or even collect water.
    Anna Sherman Maxime Fossat, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Most neutrino hunters bury their experiments deep underground, the better to cancel out noisy interference from other sources.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2022
  • For example, certain bacterial spores can bury themselves in food, causing major illness when ingested.
    WIRED, 31 Oct. 2022
  • In the Newsweek piece, McKiddy described how her father had killed dozens of young women over the course of 30 years and enlisted his children to help bury his victims.
    Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Both comic and series have suffered a similar fate — being buried in a landslide of Too Much Stuff — and both are clever little delights that deserve to be remembered.
    Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The area around the door frames can show names of the people buried there.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN, 16 May 2023
  • Most of that is buried, at least publicly, for the week.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 14 July 2024
  • He’s buried in the infield between the tote board and far turn of the grass course.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
  • Her aim was to bury the hatchet in a tiny bull’s-eye, 12 feet away.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Two years on, the two appear to have buried the hatchet.
    Rebecca Picciotto,christina Wilkie, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024
  • In the past, these deeds have lived at the back of a brief or buried at the bottom of a web page.
    Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The cemetery where Lee is buried has served as a polling place.
    Colleen Long, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Braid has little to no stretch in the line, and this helps bury the hook into the mouth of the fish.
    Mark Modoski, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Samples were collected and the whale was buried on the beach.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 3 June 2023
  • That set her on a mission to give voice to those whose own voices were buried both in the past and the present.
    Steve Hochman, SPIN, 20 Nov. 2023

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