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.
  • The burial pit was a ghastly scene.
    — Outside, 10 Dec. 2025
  • At the burial site, a voodoo priest cleanses the gang with smoke.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Yet that burial couldn't erase the impact.
    — Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • His full name was later added on a space left open at the time of his burial.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2024
  • His full name has since been engraved on a space left open at the time of his burial.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The last burials there were in 1925.
    — Dallas Morning News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The burial marked the end of a two-day farewell filled with tears, laughter and sports gear.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2025
  • His burial site in Afghanistan was never found.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The burial marked the closing of a 50-year wound.
    — ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The burial marked the closing of a 50-year wound.
    — Débora Rey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Many of the burial sites are unmarked or have rocks in place of headstones.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The document did not say where the burial would take place.
    — CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The document did not say where the burial would take place.
    — ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The bodies of those who'd been killed there had been taken away for burial.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The burial site is on the city’s outskirts, just east of the airport.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • But for us, the living, this burial meant something else.
    — Jeffrey Bennett, Time, 5 Jan. 2026
  • What’s more, bones in many of these burials were visibly charred.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
  • During his burial, an iron sword in a leather sheath was placed across his chest, with a spear next to him.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
  • That familiar phrase is found in an order for the burial of the dead.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The next question was why the young woman had been granted such a rich burial.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • Some of these artifacts were placed with the dead as part of burial practices.
    — Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Here is an article about his burial, and all those who came to pay tribute to him.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The poem ends with the hero’s burial and the laments of his followers.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Two of the burial mounds had been looted, but one contained the ancient relics.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2024
  • His burial record doesn’t indicate where he had been buried prior to this.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Among the more prominent movements is that of the green burial.
    — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022

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