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.
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At the burial site, a voodoo priest cleanses the gang with smoke.
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Jason Motlagh,
Rolling Stone,
26 Nov. 2023
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In 2020, the first burials in over a decade took place at the cemetery.
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Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 July 2024
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The burial site is on the city’s outskirts, just east of the airport.
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Anchorage Daily News,
16 Apr. 2022
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These burials are along the edges of the mounds, leaving much of the center of the mounds untouched.
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Frank Vaisvilas,
Journal Sentinel,
14 Nov. 2024
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The second was retrieved at the burial site in Peqi’in and is about 4,500 years old.
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David Kindy,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Jan. 2022
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The first explosion was near Soleimani’s burial place, and the second near the shrine.
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Mohamad El Chamaa,
Washington Post,
3 Jan. 2024
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His full name was later added on a space left open at the time of his burial.
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Rachel Smith,
The Courier-Journal,
15 Mar. 2024
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His full name has since been engraved on a space left open at the time of his burial.
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Krista Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
22 Apr. 2023
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The cave was discovered in the late 1950s and is believed to be a burial place.
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Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
3 May 2024
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There was a wake, a Catholic Mass and a burial in a family plot.
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Christopher Goffardstaff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2022
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The burial sites were likely used for 800 years, according to the team.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
22 June 2023
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At the time of the burials, the region was home to a people whom the Greeks dubbed the Illyrians.
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Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2024
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That familiar phrase is found in an order for the burial of the dead.
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Globe Staff,
BostonGlobe.com,
7 Mar. 2023
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The school made a video to celebrate the time capsule’s burial.
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Ruth Serven Smith | [email protected],
al,
23 Feb. 2022
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Among the more prominent movements is that of the green burial.
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Oliver Whang,
New York Times,
1 Nov. 2022
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As Kidane had noted, the guards wrapped corpses in muslin and took them into the desert for burial.
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Ed Caesar,
The New Yorker,
6 Nov. 2023
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The next question was why the young woman had been granted such a rich burial.
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Victoria Bisset,
Washington Post,
27 July 2023
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Those burial sites are located in the circle of pits now called the Aubrey holes.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
8 Mar. 2022
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Two of the burial mounds had been looted, but one contained the ancient relics.
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Ashlyn Messier,
Fox News,
20 Aug. 2024
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After the service, Sweeney takes the casket or urn to the cemetery for burial.
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Mike Winters,gene Kim,
CNBC,
26 Oct. 2024
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The archaeologists trekked along the riverbed and spotted burial sites along the way to the top of one of the mountains.
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Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
23 Oct. 2024
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The capstone of the capsule is still on display at the burial site, which is not meant to be opened again until the year 6939.
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Andrew Marquardt,
Fortune,
29 Dec. 2021
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Poets’ Corner, in the south transept, is famous as the burial place of writers.
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Peter Ross,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Apr. 2023
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The family has launched a GoFundMe to help with their burials.
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Carol Robinson | [email protected],
al,
9 May 2023
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The nine genetic samples used in the study came from three Neolithic burial sites in Tunisia and one in Algeria.
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Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
14 Mar. 2025
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Thousands of Hezbollah supporters gathered in a Lebanese village for a mass burial of those who died during the war with Israel.
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Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2025
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