How to Use reburial in a Sentence

reburial

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  • 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 | Jbryant@al.com, 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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