How to Use interment in a Sentence

interment

noun

• About 20% of the interment rights in the garden have been sold.
  — Cindy Heflin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2019
• In Catholic tradition, there isn’t a time frame for interment, just that the body be blessed.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
• The body is washed and shrouded, and then taken for interment.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020
• The flags will be lowered until sunset on the day of his interment.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 27 Jan. 2020
• But Nicholas' uncle missed the funeral and, instead, got a pickax and broke the stone's hold on the ground in time for the interment.
  — cincinnati.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• For each of them, the interment of Dickens in the abbey might be considered the highlight of their careers.
  — Leon Litvack, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
• Having a police escort made for a smoother ride to the interment.
  — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 5 Apr. 2018
• Reynolds will order flags in Iowa be flown at half-staff on the day of Smith's interment, the statement from her office said.
  — Hollie Silverman, CNN, 11 Apr. 2021
• The interment will be held after the service at the Astor Park Cemetery.
  — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• The flags will be at half-staff until his interment, which will be announced at a later date.
  — al, 25 June 2021
• The interment service was somber and quiet as twilight fell on the harbor.
  — Shaun McKinnon, azcentral, 7 Dec. 2019
• Flags are to remain at half-staff until the end of the day of his final interment and should return to full staff the following day.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2020
• Socrates, a pet rat that died eight months ago, and three others now sit in her kitchen freezer, awaiting interment.
  — Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2018
• A reception will be held after the service at the school and interment will private.
  — Associated Press, Washington Post, 29 May 2017
• The flags in Connecticut will remain at half staff until sunset on the date of interment.
  — Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2022
• But the encounter went no further, and the momentary pause in their war of words seemed unlikely to last beyond the interment.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2016
• The details of the interment sometimes enable us to guess at why a particular dog was buried.
  — Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018
• Last year, the city decided to turn over control to Parks though DOC still manages the property and interments.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 11 Apr. 2020
• A service will be held at the church at 11 a.m., followed by interment services at Elmhurst Cemetery in Joliet.
  — Alicia Fabbre, Daily Southtown, 1 May 2017
• The local council of the Knights of Columbus, of which both are members, helped raise money for the interment and donated a marker for the potter’s field.
  — Tim Trainor, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• Skuodas came from Lithuania and spent six childhood years in an interment camp in Germany.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• The flags shall will remain lowered until sunset on the date of interment, which has not been determined.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
• If no changes are made, the cemetery is on course to run out of space for new interments by the mid 2050s, including for Medal of Honor recipients.
  — NBC News, 25 Sep. 2019
• A few days before the interment, the chaplain conducting the service, Navy Lt. Cmdr.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
• Though not often remembered these days, the interment was a massive event.
  — Andrew Thomas, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2021
• Interments represent 16 foreign countries and at least 26 states in the Union.
  — Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 31 May 2017
• The lawsuit makes claims including breach of contract and a denial of a common law right of peaceful interment.
  — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 28 July 2022
• Flags shall remain lowered until sunset on the day of Yates's interment.
  — The Enquirer, 25 July 2022
• On Friday, Hogan ordered state flags flown at half-staff until Mitchell’s interment.
  — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• The rest of him was ferried back to London, where his open coffin was displayed before being borne to a church near Newstead Abbey for interment.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024