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.
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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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