How to Use burial in a Sentence

burial

noun
  • Did you attend the burial?
  • They prepared the body for burial.
  • She wanted to give him a proper burial.
  • The law prohibits the burial of toxic substances without special permits.
  • At the burial site, a voodoo priest cleanses the gang with smoke.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • In 2020, the first burials in over a decade took place at the cemetery.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 July 2024
  • The burial site is on the city’s outskirts, just east of the airport.
    Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • These burials are along the edges of the mounds, leaving much of the center of the mounds untouched.
    Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The first explosion was near Soleimani’s burial place, and the second near the shrine.
    Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • His full name was later added on a space left open at the time of his burial.
    Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2024
  • His full name has since been engraved on a space left open at the time of his burial.
    Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The cave was discovered in the late 1950s and is believed to be a burial place.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2024
  • There was a wake, a Catholic Mass and a burial in a family plot.
    Christopher Goffardstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The burial sites were likely used for 800 years, according to the team.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
  • At the time of the burials, the region was home to a people whom the Greeks dubbed the Illyrians.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2024
  • That familiar phrase is found in an order for the burial of the dead.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Among the more prominent movements is that of the green burial.
    Oliver Whang, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
  • As Kidane had noted, the guards wrapped corpses in muslin and took them into the desert for burial.
    Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The next question was why the young woman had been granted such a rich burial.
    Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • Two of the burial mounds had been looted, but one contained the ancient relics.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2024
  • After the service, Sweeney takes the casket or urn to the cemetery for burial.
    Mike Winters,gene Kim, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The archaeologists trekked along the riverbed and spotted burial sites along the way to the top of one of the mountains.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Poets’ Corner, in the south transept, is famous as the burial place of writers.
    Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The family has launched a GoFundMe to help with their burials.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 9 May 2023
  • Welcome to the earliest and largest African burial ground in the United States.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2022
  • Meanwhile, Felder didn’t think much about his hat after the burial.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Lewis believes the land where the graves were found should be cleared and turned back into a cemetery, along with a plaque telling the story of the burial site.
    Davi Merchan, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Sometime in the last 500 years, lightning struck the burial site, burning away most of the soft tissue from one of the bodies.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 16 May 2022
  • The mortal remains of the deceased must also be handed over to the families for a dignified burial.
    Megan Forrester, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The physical marker and the ceremony of a traditional burial gave his sister a sense of closure.
    Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025

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