How to Use rebury in a Sentence

rebury

verb
  • His father had helped build the cemetery in the 1950s to rebury the Jews who had been killed in the town.
    New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Two groups are vying over the right to rebury the remains.
    Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2014
  • In the 1950s, Mr. Tamarkin’s father had helped build the cemetery to rebury the Jews who had been killed in Vasylkiv.
    New York Times, 10 May 2022
  • The zoo’s plan is to dig up the graves of 12-15 people and rebury them nearby on the property.
    Joseph D. Bryant | Jbryant@al.com, al, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Butler said the seven tribes would like to rebury the remains with their items somewhere in Alabama.
    al, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The decision: bring the bones home and respectfully rebury them.
    CBS News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The revelation ended a 20-year legal battle and allowed tribes to rebury the bones.
    Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2017
  • Protesters swarmed the museum, and some jumped into the pit with shovels to rebury the ancestors.
    Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Kala‘i, whose former husband and children trace their ancestry to the area, had been urging Nesbitt’s consultants to rebury the bones where they had been found.
    Sophie Cocke, ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The community wanted to rebury them with love, honor, and respect.
    Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 8 July 2021
  • The contractor was instructed to rebury the caskets when the utility work was finished but the trenches were filled before the caskets could be returned, according to the email.
    Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Five Native American tribes from the area claimed Kennewick Man as an ancestor and fought a legal battle to repatriate and rebury the remains.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2015
  • The Delaware tribe expects to finish its process soon and rebury its ancestors in October.
    Celina Tebor, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
  • Muscogee Creek Nation objected to plans to study and rebury the remains at another location.
    Amy Yurkanin | Ayurkanin@al.com, al, 21 July 2023
  • Yet some community members believe Penn Museum should not be leading the effort to rebury the remains.
    Jacquelyne Germain, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Local Native American tribes have been fighting to rebury the remains as those of a direct ancestor, in accordance with a federal law.
    Zach Zorich, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2016
  • After consulting with tribal elders and others, researchers plan to rebury Anzick-1 later this year, honoring the traditions of the same people that the child's bones have helped to demystify.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2014
  • As a result, tribes have been not only denied opportunities to reclaim and rebury their ancestors, but also excluded from having a say over the treatment of the remains.
    Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 20 July 2023
  • Kusimba, who is originally from Kenya, worked with local communities to excavate the human remains, analyze them, and rebury them.
    Byandrew Curry, science.org, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Alternatively, their report concluded, the company could exhume the remains and rebury them somewhere else.
    Popular Science, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Existing law to protect unmarked cemeteries in Illinois failed to create a pathway for tribal nations to rebury ancestral remains that had been disinterred.
    Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Denmark responded by culling its entire mink population, which naturally went wrong as mink bodies began resurfacing from their mass graves, forcing the country to rebury them.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The costs of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic have forced Mexican archaeologists to rebury an unusual find that combined colonial and pre-Hispanic features.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 July 2021
  • To rebury those caskets, families could rely on assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
    CBS News, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The account is partially funded by fines for desecrating burial grounds, including for the first time, restitution to cover collecting, cleaning, and reburying remains illegally taken, just as other remains before them had been for centuries.
    John O’Connor and Melissa Perez Winder, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
  • As Price writes in a separate Charlotte Observer article, officials hope to rebury unidentified human remains found near a former battlefield hospital in Fredericksburg in 2015.
    Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2021

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