How to Use reburial in a Sentence

reburial

noun

• Their names are marked on a sign for reburial in a cemetery.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
• The dead were wheeled out in hand carts to a farmer’s field behind the hospital, and placed in shallow graves, waiting for reburial.
  — WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
• Days after the reburial, rushing back to the stresses of life and work in Washington, Edgar had his heart attack.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2020
• The 1998 reburial of the Romanovs was a solemn state event meant to showcase the Russian nation's reconciliation with its past.
  — Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
• The Barkindji are the majority native title holders and have native title claim to 80 percent of the land to be used for reburial.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2022
• For a long time, Reaves tried without success to get people interested in a reburial.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• The bones of some of them were returned to Russia for reburial as a sign of national healing, and the revival of Russia as an imperial power.
  — Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• The reburial will strive to preserve the cemetery’s original layout, meaning that the four children interred side by side will once again be laid to rest together.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2020
• The Museum of Northern Arizona was collaborating with the two tribes to prepare for a reburial.
  — AZCentral.com, 5 June 2023
• Her tribe, like others, had to draw on existing ceremonies to establish a new process for reburials that did not exist before the looting.
  — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2023
• Before the 19th century, bodies pulled out of bogs were often given a Christian reburial.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• Edgar later helped oversee the exhumation and return of her remains to her home, where thousands gathered for an emotional reburial in 1998.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2020
• The reburial came after the priests repaired damage to the mummy apparently caused by tomb robbers searching for jewelry.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2021
• When Beethoven’s body was disinterred for reburial 36 years later, the official report noted that the pieces of the skull did not fit together because numerous splinters had been lost.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• But Illinois did not provide land for reburial and those ancestors were reburied in Oklahoma despite the preference that tribal leaders had expressed in the 1990s.
  — Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 30 Mar. 2023
• But the soldiers’ excavation and reburial is not only a memorial.
  — Jeffrey Collins, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• Tap Pilam said its members have been denied access for an annual remembrance ceremony in the Alamo church, where the group conducted a reburial of remains in 1995.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2021
• Previous policies at the Illinois State Museum, which holds the remains of at least 7,000 ancestors, favored the scientific study of remains over their return to tribes for reburial.
  — Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2023
• Vásquez said the annual ceremony commemorates the first reburial of ancestors inside the chapel 25 years ago.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• The remains will be placed into new wooden boxes, as specified by the Historical Commission, for reburial.
  — Joseph D. Bryant | [e-mail], al, 21 Aug. 2023
• Authorities are now taking steps to exhume the bodies for identification and reburial.
  — Donna M. Owens, Essence, 24 May 2021
• They are now being prepared for a reburial ceremony worthy of what historians are calling America’s first heroes.
  — Jeffrey Collins, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• Cemetery excavations, sampling and reburial of human remains were carried out in one season, rather than dragging on indefinitely.
  — The Conversation, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
• Because cultural strictures required the reburial of the original pipe—a funerary object—tribal officials requested three replicas that could be used to educate people about the pipe’s history and the repatriation.
  — Rachel Parsons, Scientific American, 29 June 2022
• However, dozens of protesters had gathered to denounce the Friday reburial without a proper funeral ceremony.
  — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 31 July 2021

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