How to Use disinter in a Sentence

disinter

verb

• The body was disinterred for further study.
• As many as a dozen corpses might be disinterred, Dr. Skóra said.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• The urn has been disinterred, and the GBI will try to determine whose remains were in it.
  — Steve Burns, ajc, 21 June 2018
• If the money did not come, the cemetery disinterred the remains.
  — The Economist, 28 May 2020
• Eventually, the efforts worked and the DoD agreed to disinter the 27.
  — National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2016
• Sierra has pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder and disinterring a corpse.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• The sensors would have to be disinterred from streets and replaced with new ones that support encrypted updates.
  — Kim Zetter, WIRED, 30 Apr. 2014
• Cry of the undead As illustrated by the story of Arnold Paole, popular belief held that to kill a vampire, the corpse had to be disinterred and pierced with a stake.
  — Oscar Urbiola, National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
• When the families of the deceased couldn’t continue paying burial fees, the bodies were set to be disinterred.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• After the visit to the Winters-Jackson family cemetery, the trio gathered at Holy Cross at the stone slab that marks where the remains of the 72 people disinterred are located.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 18 June 2018
• In August 2018, remains thought to be Woods were disinterred from the Punchbowl and sent to the laboratory for analysis.
  — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2019
• In recent years, some of these human remains have reappeared aboveground: Erosion of the Hart Island shoreline has caused bones to be disinterred and scattered along the beachfront.
  — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2020
• The coffin had been donated by Till’s mother after the 14-year-old lynching victim was disinterred and reburied.
  — National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2019
• Simon Mezes, responsible for having platted the city of Redwood during the 1850s, was disinterred and moved to a cemetery in Colma.
  — Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 31 May 2017
• Even as Lemonade disinters the pain wrought by Jay-Z’s infidelity, Beyoncé yokes her fate to his.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 18 June 2018
• New evidence disinterred in March may raise the fatality count above 80.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2019
• In 2009, a detective, hoping to use new DNA analysis methods to find a new lead, arranged for the body to be disinterred, according to court documents.
  — NBC News, 15 Mar. 2020
• By that point, locals had already disinterred the bones and deposited them into an ossuary alongside other sets of remains.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 Oct. 2019
• An unknown number of graves were disinterred, while other graves lay forgotten.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• The bodies were disinterred, and the identification process started anew.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• The presence of the remains of her body calls into question the propriety of presenting disinterred remains as art in ways the disembodied portraits don't.
  — Dmitry Samarov, Chicago Reader, 23 Jan. 2018
• The church closed its own burial ground on Fulton Street, disinterring and moving the bodies, including some that had been laid to rest before the Revolutionary War.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 22 June 2017
• Meikle said the sheriff identified the body as that of Dickens the day after Frankie Kerrigan surfaced, before disinterring the body.
  — Gale Holland, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Those remains were disinterred by the American Graves Registration Command after the war, the agency said, but they were not identified.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
• When Beethoven’s body was disinterred for reburial 36 years later, the official report noted that the pieces of the skull did not fit together because numerous splinters had been lost.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• The glass encased skeleton at Wat Pah Nanachat, a forest monastery in northeast Thailand, belonged to a local woman years before the former abbot had her bones disinterred and put on show in the meditation hall.
  — Joseph Hincks / Hong Kong, Time, 30 Aug. 2017
• Their bodies were disinterred and brought to New Cathedral as a central resting place, replacing separate church yards around Baltimore.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• Revolutionaries disinter your body long after your death and make off with your mummified head.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2010
• South American shamans like her grandfather, whose bones the family decides to disinter in accordance with his spectral request.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• Remains of the unknown soldier recovered near Agok were disinterred in 2021 as part of a broader military effort to determine the identities of several hundred Americans who died in the war.
  — Russ Bynum, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2023

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024