How to Use unburied in a Sentence

unburied

adjective
  • Bus stops along roads maintained by the city are largely unburied — if not pristinely plowed.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • One is left unburied by decree of her vindictive uncle, who’s now king.
    — Daryl H. Miller, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
  • Soldiers lie unburied on the battlefield.
    — Susan Sontag, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The moist air was thick with smoke and diesel fumes, and—because many of those killed on both sides remained unburied all over the city—the smell of rotting flesh.
    — Mark Bowden, vanityfair.com, 20 May 2017
  • Her act defies King Creon’s recent edict that Polynices be left to rot, unburied.
    — Rachel Hadas, The Conversation, 8 July 2022
  • For a society in need of those minerals, the nodules are unburied treasure, sitting right there on the sea floor ready to be collected.
    — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • Nicholas, Alexandra, and three daughters were returned to their tomb, but Alexei and Maria remain unburied.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • But in the original winter of discontent, as trash piled up on the streets and bodies lay unburied amid strikes, the public lost sympathy for workers.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • About 10 percent of the planet’s land mass is covered with glacial ice, and as the world defrosts, ancient creatures great and small are being unburied as well.
    — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Scientists found 27 unburied bodies of women, men, and children sprawled at the scene of that prehistoric massacre.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Under siege and bombardment since the war’s first days, Mariupol lies largely in ruins, with unburied bodies lying in the streets.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • More than 50 unburied bodies were in a terrible state of decay, Minchenko said in an interview in early August.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
  • With minimal protection from fallout and no medical treatment for other trauma, many died, their bodies left unburied for several weeks.
    — Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Excavations in 2014 on the Swedish island of Öland revealed the bones of victims who were left unburied and unburned.
    — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Despite the further confirmation, Alexei and his sister remain unburied.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Ukrainian authorities warned that civilians who are still in the southeastern port city face dangerously unsanitary conditions, while many of the dead from a two-month siege remain unburied.
    — Inna Varenytsia and David Keyton, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Anyway, improbably enough, my garden box sits right in the center of the yard, like an unburied casket — not an entirely inapt metaphor considering my morbid agricultural past.
    — Geoff Kirsch, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 July 2017
  • The operations often went bankrupt, leaving untended graves and, sometimes, unburied or partially buried corpses in various states of decomposition.
    — Carson Kessler, ProPublica, 25 July 2022
  • About a thousand miles away in the Ituri region, on the other side of the Democratic Republic of Congo, people fleeing a massacre climb out of boats and wade ashore, their homes burned to the ground, their dead unburied.
    — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Meanwhile, the Polar Reports paper focused on identifying an unburied skeleton found in 1859 on the south shore of King William Island.
    — ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
  • While the mere existence of Troy is not proof that the war was real, the discovery of arrowheads, signs of fire, and unburied bodies found in a layer corresponding to the 13th century bce indicates the possibility of battles having occurred.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026

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