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    Use "burial" in a sentence

    burial example sentences

    burial


    1. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,


    2. The women went to Collin and they took Becky to prepare her for burial


    3. My parent's car rolled onto the burial ground at about nine at night


    4. Wasn't that nice?' She swallowed, 'Do you know, after three years they exhume the bones and put them in a little box and keep them in the ossuary at the entrance to the cemetery? The ground must be too hard to dig deep and it seems before the burial they fill a pillow with olive leaves for his head and they trim his hair


    5. moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he: 4 for it comes in


    6. She looked around the small glade and saw a largish stone … maybe if she lifted it, she could put the bird underneath … a sort of burial


    7. Now she deserves a decent burial, that’s all


    8. I was seven months pregnant at the time; I remember standing in the rain at Mum’s burial service feeling like a beached whale


    9. They retrieved the bodies of fallen friends and family and gave them a proper burial a few miles away


    10. 11“ ‘On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of

    11. mainly interested in visiting the burial sites of Heloise and


    12. man’s burial, and the pilgrims breathed a sigh of relief as


    13. Without a proper burial, there was no guarantee he’d even have a place inside the realm of Hades


    14. But in my heart, he enjoys the burial chamber of the greatest prince


    15. Though it was actually skirting an ancient burial ground of block-shaped crypts, she’d pretend it was the crossroads


    16. Nerissa gazed sadly at the largest of the burial chambers


    17. The body was to be taken to the Corpse Chamber where it would be prepared for burial


    18. They had one last chance to show their respect before it was to be taken away and prepared for burial


    19. Ideally he would have refrozen them until they could be given a proper burial but in the circumstances laying them side-by-side on the floor of the cryonic store room would have to do


    20. Maybe it would be possible at a later date to return and retrieve the body, or at least give him a proper burial

    21. I was there the whole time, even while she was prepared for burial


    22. As the odor of oil reached me, I remembered when Joseph told me that myrrh was often used as a burial oil


    23. I saw that someone had been there earlier, making the burial cave ready


    24. In fact, only a few hours after Joseph"s burial, I realized I had mountainous problems to face


    25. She arrived home in time for the burial


    26. As discussed earlier, it is clear that rapid burial had to have occurred for animal remains to undergo fossilisation and to preserve the detail found in some of these fossils


    27. It would cause instantaneous burial of plant and animal material, as well as humans living during that time


    28. And the Conservation Society, which was in the process of restoring the old castle and burial ground, from which the village had received its original Gaelic name, Reilig an Chaisleáin; The Castle of the Burial Ground – or in its Anglocized version, Cashelrelick


    29. They had visited the cemetery three days after the burial and


    30. The night after his burial, a clear June evening, Misha tapped at the front door and sat patiently

    31. “You have done the right thing this document gives me the right to claim your body for burial and that the mayor and people of Saint-Marianne-Angély agree for you to be interred in the village cemetery


    32. I started to read it and realised that it was from the Countess Yvette and that she had written it and given it to George Drew to be passed on to Helen it told all about the village giving a place for Billy Boy’s burial in the cemetery there


    33. “They have been here hundreds of years and it was once thought that they were burial chambers of the gods


    34. Then, to save time, he wanted to cover them with the ground, to give them a mass burial and decided that if he stopped the world from spinning for a few seconds, the seas would wash over the bodies and cover them with silt


    35. The burial was marked by another scene of bloodshed, and more victims were chosen and executed, one of the mourners being sometimes seized and killed, if it suited the priest's caprice to further amuse the crowd


    36. Quite recently, Aframi, King of Gyeso died, and Prempeh had six men beheaded at the burial to “wash his grave,” as the custom is called


    37. She, along with several other fallen villagers, would receive a reverent burial in the Great Wood, as was the Halfling tradition


    38. I stood a few moments longer, but the burial was evidently not to be proceeded with in my presence, so I discreetly withdrew, followed by some niggers, who furtively watched me well down the road before returning to the grave side


    39. To make room behind the bank, we carried poor Mitchie and several other dead across the ford to await burial


    40. He searched the dead also, taking charge of personal effects, and attempting to establish the identity of each, before the vultures commenced their work or the burial detail was sent out

    41. Chaplain Brown conducted a service under fire over the grave of Captain O'Neil, and later assisted Chaplain Swift with a general burial in the valley


    42. Truce was declared that morning to enable the burial of the dead


    43. Give the man a Christian burial,” and Nibbles saw that Bru was off into la-la land again


    44. “Henry – he’s the bloke I take coffee with - reckons it’s a tumulus, an ancient burial ground


    45. The burial of the dead


    46. Miss Hamilton was from Philadelphia, and her remains will be returned there for burial


    47. Cheska, who told him that visiting a loved one’s place of burial was considered by some as a way in which to salve the heart


    48. This was his first burial


    49. I wish that I could have taken some justifiable satisfaction from this Roman disaster, but I was appalled by the tremendous suffering that all the people must have gone through who had been trapped and smothered in such a hellish burial


    50. I’d share a common burial with the














































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    Synonyms for "burial"

    burial burying entombment inhumation interment sepulture vault mausoleum sepulchre mound tomb barrow

    "burial" definitions

    the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave


    concealing something under the ground