How to Use inter in a Sentence

inter

verb
  • Sixty died on the Utah, and three have been interred there.
    NBC News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • These men, aged 17 to 30, had been interred with great care, in their own graves.
    Fox News, 1 July 2018
  • Ed was interred in a Packard from the 1940s, embalmed in the passenger seat.
    Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2020
  • His heart was cut from his chest and sent home, where it was interred at the chapel at Pere Lachaise cemetery.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 July 2019
  • The agency says the twins’ remains will be interred in Lincoln on Aug. 10.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2019
  • His remains will be interred in the New Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon.
    courant.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Joseph Langdell’s ashes were interred on the Arizona in 2015.
    NBC News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Joseph Langdell's ashes were interred on the Arizona in 2015.
    Audrey McAvoy, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The court did find descendants of those interred on the site may be able to make claims against future owners of the site.
    Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • Bruner is expected to be the last Arizona crew member to be interred on the ship.
    Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Their bodies were interred in a mass grave somewhere in the East Bottoms.
    Patrick C. Salland, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The same day, inter-state bus services were also stopped.
    Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Les Invalides, where Napoleon is interred, will host archery.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • Bodies will be interred both in the floor and on multiple levels along the walls.
    Sam Sokol, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The Army asked where the family wanted his remains to be interred.
    David Owens, courant.com, 7 July 2018
  • Among his final requests was to be interred close to the grave of his old friend, Major Nicholson.
    Clay Risen, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • At the end of Joe’s story, Gibbs signs a note promising that his ashes will be interred on the Arizona when Joe dies.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Then, the Army hired civilians to collect the frozen corpses, buried in snow, paying $2 for each Indian interred on the hill.
    Julian Brave Noisecat, Harper's magazine, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The new regime didn't take kindly to inter-species romance, and the lovers were forced to flee separately.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2019
  • He was interred in a Roman-style burial, in a grave lined and covered with rocks and his feet pointing north.
    Kristin Romey, National Geographic, 15 May 2019
  • As of April 15, families who wish to view their loved ones being interred must watch from their cars.
    Robert Sherman | Fox News, Fox News, 23 May 2020
  • The city of Deerfield Beach has started building the park that will honor the dead buried at the only place where blacks could be interred into the 1960s.
    Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 June 2018
  • The presence of nails indicates the dead were interred in wooden coffins that have since decayed.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The family plans to inter her in Montana next to Mackeon.
    Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The officer’s remains were not interred and his story dwelt in the shadows.
    Phil Gast, CNN, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Lennon’s body was to be interred Tuesday in a wall at the cathedral, alongside other bishops.
    Grant Segall, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The dead could be buried at potter’s fields like Washington Square, but the city forbade any tombstones to mark those interred there.
    Washington Post, 5 July 2018
  • Those were then interred in Troy, Mich., adjacent to a white marble statue of a polar bear.
    Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Most of the state's recent former governors are interred or have had their ashes scattered in the Phoenix area.
    Andrew Oxford, azcentral, 18 Apr. 2020
  • The anonymous body interred here was brought in November 1920 from a battlefield in France.
    Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023

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