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 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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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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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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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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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 | Crobinson@al.com,
al,
9 May 2023
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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.
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Davi Merchan,
ABC News,
20 Jan. 2024
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Allen, 44, who lives in Longview, plans to visit the site after Perry’s burial.
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oregonlive,
9 June 2023
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The Chinese, barred from this country by law in 1882, were often barred from burial too.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2024
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Lisa Marie also opened up to Playboy about her burial plans in 2003.
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Kelsie Gibson,
Peoplemag,
17 Jan. 2023
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Here is an article about his burial, and all those who came to pay tribute to him.
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Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
6 Jan. 2023
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Now all those slips were stuffed into a cigar box, then placed in a miniature grave in a make-believe burial.
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Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
18 Sep. 2024
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His full name, Cairo Ammar Jordan, has since been engraved on a space that had been left open at the time of his burial.
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Lucas Aulbach,
The Courier-Journal,
23 Nov. 2022
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Of those burials, 85% were single tombs and 15% were joint tombs in masonry vaults.
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Moira Ritter,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2024
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The discovery of artifacts and the burial site suggest Vikings once lived on the island.
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Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Oct. 2023
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The local Paiute Tribe then collected the body for a Native burial.
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Ali Martin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Sep. 2024
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