How to Use rebury in a Sentence

rebury

verb
  • Sometimes squirrels will even excavate and then rebury their nuts.
    — Emma Bryce, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
  • His father had helped build the cemetery in the 1950s to rebury the Jews who had been killed in the town.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The zoo’s plan is to dig up the graves of 12-15 people and rebury them nearby on the property.
    — Joseph D. Bryant | [email protected], al, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Butler said the seven tribes would like to rebury the remains with their items somewhere in Alabama.
    — al, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The community wanted to rebury them with love, honor, and respect.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 8 July 2021
  • Protesters swarmed the museum, and some jumped into the pit with shovels to rebury the ancestors.
    — Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The revelation ended a 20-year legal battle and allowed tribes to rebury the bones.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2017
  • The Delaware tribe expects to finish its process soon and rebury its ancestors in October.
    — Celina Tebor, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
  • Kala‘i, whose former husband and children trace their ancestry to the area, had been urging Nesbitt’s consultants to rebury the bones where they had been found.
    — Sophie Cocke, ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2020
  • In the meantime, archaeologists are flagging mummies exposed to elements and reburying them in the soil.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Muscogee Creek Nation objected to plans to study and rebury the remains at another location.
    — Amy Yurkanin | [email protected], al, 21 July 2023
  • Yet some community members believe Penn Museum should not be leading the effort to rebury the remains.
    — Jacquelyne Germain, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The contractor was instructed to rebury the caskets when the utility work was finished but the trenches were filled before the caskets could be returned, according to the email.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Biggs received a contract to disinter and rebury the Union dead following the battle of Gettysburg.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Alternatively, their report concluded, the company could exhume the remains and rebury them somewhere else.
    — Popular Science, 17 Nov. 2020
  • As a result, tribes have been not only denied opportunities to reclaim and rebury their ancestors, but also excluded from having a say over the treatment of the remains.
    — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 20 July 2023
  • Local Native American tribes have been fighting to rebury the remains as those of a direct ancestor, in accordance with a federal law.
    — Zach Zorich, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2016
  • Denmark responded by culling its entire mink population, which naturally went wrong as mink bodies began resurfacing from their mass graves, forcing the country to rebury them.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Kusimba, who is originally from Kenya, worked with local communities to excavate the human remains, analyze them, and rebury them.
    — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Existing law to protect unmarked cemeteries in Illinois failed to create a pathway for tribal nations to rebury ancestral remains that had been disinterred.
    — Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Five Native American tribes from the area claimed Kennewick Man as an ancestor and fought a legal battle to repatriate and rebury the remains.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2015
  • In 2000, the association began a nationwide effort to disinter and rebury the bodies.
    — Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
  • After consulting with tribal elders and others, researchers plan to rebury Anzick-1 later this year, honoring the traditions of the same people that the child's bones have helped to demystify.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2014
  • The costs of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic have forced Mexican archaeologists to rebury an unusual find that combined colonial and pre-Hispanic features.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 July 2021
  • Lawmakers in Ohio and Illinois passed legislation this year with the aim of removing barriers to repatriation for the museums and tribes alike, while allowing land to be set aside to rebury the thousands of ancestors in each state.
    — Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 26 Dec. 2023
  • To rebury those caskets, families could rely on assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
    — CBS News, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The account is partially funded by fines for desecrating burial grounds, including for the first time, restitution to cover collecting, cleaning, and reburying remains illegally taken, just as other remains before them had been for centuries.
    — John O’Connor and Melissa Perez Winder, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
  • In 2023, a new state law was passed at the urging of the museum to remove potential barriers to repatriation and allow land to be set aside for reburying the ancestral remains of Native Americans.
    — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 2 Feb. 2024
  • History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, revealing the still-pervasive worldviews that justified their collection in the first place.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026
  • History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Dec. 2025

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