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
  • There are also the remains of ten monarchs interred in the chapel.
    Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 31 Jan. 2018
  • 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 remains were interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu cemeteries in Hawaii.
    Giuseppe Ricapito, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The same day, inter-state bus services were also stopped.
    Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 30 Mar. 2020
  • They were husband and wife and both interred side by side at the Odd Fellows Cemetery.
    Troy Shinn, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Les Invalides, where Napoleon is interred, will host archery.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • And the tough times have possibly led to inter-office crime.
    Bess Levin, The Hive, 21 June 2017
  • Bodies will be interred both in the floor and on multiple levels along the walls.
    Sam Sokol, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Saint Nicholas’s bones were interred at a church in Myra, present day Demre, after his death.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Some speculate that Shaffer’s body is still in the bar, perhaps interred in the walls.
    Jeremy Lybarger, Longreads, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The Army asked where the family wanted his remains to be interred.
    David Owens, courant.com, 7 July 2018
  • The salute to Devitt, who died last August at 97 but wasn’t interred until this week, was rare and arranged at the last minute.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Mar. 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
  • One of these contained the remains of two young men interred with another 2,200 stone and shell beads.
    National Geographic, 1 July 2017
  • One of these contained the remains of two young men interred with another 2,200 stone and shell beads.
    National Geographic, 1 July 2017
  • 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
  • Since the cemetery's inception, 90 service dogs' ashes from all over the country have been interred there, Weitlauf said.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2024
  • There were already five young granddaughters buried there before Jesse and Matilda were interred.
    Susan Ruddick Bloom, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2024

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