How to Use unburied in a Sentence

unburied

adjective

• The moist air was thick with smoke and diesel fumes, and—because many of those killed on both sides remained unburied all over the city—the smell of rotting flesh.
  — Mark Bowden, vanityfair.com, 20 May 2017
• Bus stops along roads maintained by the city are largely unburied — if not pristinely plowed.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2023
• Excavations in 2014 on the Swedish island of Öland revealed the bones of victims who were left unburied and unburned.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 5 Jan. 2023
• Nicholas, Alexandra, and three daughters were returned to their tomb, but Alexei and Maria remain unburied.
  — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• Her act defies King Creon’s recent edict that Polynices be left to rot, unburied.
  — Rachel Hadas, The Conversation, 8 July 2022
• About 10 percent of the planet’s land mass is covered with glacial ice, and as the world defrosts, ancient creatures great and small are being unburied as well.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• One is left unburied by decree of her vindictive uncle, who’s now king.
  — Daryl H. Miller, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
• Under siege and bombardment since the war’s first days, Mariupol lies largely in ruins, with unburied bodies lying in the streets.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022
• Scientists found 27 unburied bodies of women, men, and children sprawled at the scene of that prehistoric massacre.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 10 Jan. 2020
• About a thousand miles away in the Ituri region, on the other side of the Democratic Republic of Congo, people fleeing a massacre climb out of boats and wade ashore, their homes burned to the ground, their dead unburied.
  — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• More than 50 unburied bodies were in a terrible state of decay, Minchenko said in an interview in early August.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
• Still others ignored the rules and camped where they weren’t supposed to, leaving behind fire scars, trampled vegetation, and unburied human waste.
  — Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 25 May 2021
• After his arrest Eggers led police to the missing woman's unburied body, which still was underneath the tree limb, in a wooded area in northwest Walker County.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• Next year is the centennial of the Russian Revolution, and while the country will undoubtedly find many ways to mark the occasion, the unburied bones of its deposed ruling family present a dilemma.
  — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• Ukrainian authorities warned that civilians who are still in the southeastern port city face dangerously unsanitary conditions, while many of the dead from a two-month siege remain unburied.
  — Inna Varenytsia and David Keyton, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2022
• With minimal protection from fallout and no medical treatment for other trauma, many died, their bodies left unburied for several weeks.
  — Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
• Anyway, improbably enough, my garden box sits right in the center of the yard, like an unburied casket — not an entirely inapt metaphor considering my morbid agricultural past.
  — Geoff Kirsch, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 July 2017
• Despite the further confirmation, Alexei and his sister remain unburied.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 19 Nov. 2022
• Many longtime enthusiasts—myself included—have reported seeing more littered toilet paper and unburied waste (a.k.a. surface turds) in the last two years than ever before.
  — Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 25 Apr. 2022
• Archaeologists have previously discovered victims of natural disasters whose still-shackled bodies were left unburied, but this does not appear to be the case with the Great Casterton man.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2021
• The operations often went bankrupt, leaving untended graves and, sometimes, unburied or partially buried corpses in various states of decomposition.
  — Carson Kessler, ProPublica, 25 July 2022

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024