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How to use burial in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Burial means the act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth. Example: “His whole family was present at his burial.”

Examples of burial by meaning

nounThe act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.

  • His whole family was present at his burial.
  • The mourners listened as the priest performed the burial service of long-time parishioner Wendy Stuart.

More sentences with burial

  • Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.From the entry train
  • The archaeology will tell us which methods of burial were used by the Ancient Greeks.From the entry archaeology
  • Oh, it's the classic story: ancient, unearthal of burial tomb, meet-cute.2026 April 3, judeasaurus, 00:43:43 from the start, in My roommate predicts the future #comedian #sitcom #roommates #comedy #skit, YouTube. From the entry unearthal
  • Intentional skull reshaping is found in burials across Asia, Europe and Mesoamerica.2023 August 18, Mindy Weisberger, “Long-standing mystery of modified human skulls in ancient Japan solved by new analysis”, in CNN. From the entry reshape
  • A tombstone inside the burial chamber suggested the individual laid to rest underground was "not a commoner".2019 December, “Tang Dynasty tomb found in a school sports field in China”, in Subterranea, number 52, Subterranea Britannica, →ISSN…. From the entry Wanbailin
  • I never understood paying for burial when you could just let pigs eat your body.2015, Jenny Lawson, “My Phone Is More Fun to Hang Out with Than Me”, in Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, New York…. From the entry two birds/one stone
  • “Go, old man, and fetch your daughter for burial.” The old man rode off.2014, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afanas’ev, edited by Jack V. Haney, The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, volume I, University Press of…. From the entry blin
  • The Tang house’s respect for non-Hàn burial customs both within and beyond the Chinese heartland was documented.2012, Sanping Chen, Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry Hàn
  • When a Keres dies, a priesthood supervises the burial, not the clan.2007, Jay Miller, Keresan Pueblos and Chaco Canyon Speculations on Language Identity, Puebloan Cultures, and Southwestern Prehistory…. From the entry Keres
  • After my dishcloths attain holeyness, I give them a decent burial in my compost pile.2006, Ellen Sandbeck, Organic Housekeeping, Scribner, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry holeyness
  • I lie on my side, head sunk in the pillow, legs upfolded, as if for Indian burial.2003, May Swenson, The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry upfold
  • In rites of encoffinment, burial and commemoration, all human beings are treated as ghosts.2002, Linda Woodhead et al., Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry encoffinment
  • The “Boneyard” is a place of antiques and historic symbolism, a burial ground for aircraft.1999, Naval Aviation News, volumes 82-83, page 37. From the entry boneyard
  • Incandenza's burial in Québec's L'Islet County was twice delayed by annular hyperfloration cycles.1996, David Foster Wallace, “As of Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little…. From the entry festschrift
  • Tuesday in Holy Family Roman Catholic Church here with burial in the church cemetery.1986 October 9, “[Obituaries] Mary P. Bellard”, in Daily World, volume 46, number 246, Opelousas, La., →OCLC, page 14, column 2. From the entry Maxina
  • As the place grew overcrowded, the content was carried to the cemetery for burial.1983, Jacob Z[allel] Lauterbach, “73. Ritual for Disposal of Damaged Sefer Torah (Vol. XXXIV, 9124, pp. 74–75)”, in Walter Jacob, editor…. From the entry genizah
  • Incubation in the vicinity of burial places, cremation grounds, holy wells and sacred streams was common.1978, Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine, Routledge, page 144. From the entry incubation
  • Well, I guess we'll have to have a quick burial at sea then.1978 September 14, Dale McRaven, Mork & Mindy, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Mork (Robin Williams). From the entry bite the big one
  • His tales of catalepsy and live burial poisoned my childhood, and still killed me.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 190. From the entry catalepsy
  • There, the body of President Chiang will rest pending permanent burial in the mainland after its recovery.1976, “China Yearbook 1976”, in The Hallmark, Taipei: China Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 2. From the entry catafalque
  • Further beliefs of the early Turks can be deduced from their burial customs.1958, Thomas G[ustav] Winner, “The Kazakh Culture Pattern”, in The Oral Art and Literature of the Kazakhs of Russian Central Asia, Durham…. From the entry balbal
  • 'He wasn't prepared to give it more credence -- than, say, the Melpham burial.1956, Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. From the entry King Charles' head
  • Burials had been found north and south of Applecross, preserved in the soils of sandy coastal meadows known as machair.2023 February 24, “Bones under Highlands kitchen floor are Iron Age burial site”, in BBC News. From the entry machair
  • Birdy especially got cranked up about home burial.2013, Seedy Buckberry, A Windfall Homestead. From the entry cranked up
  • Kallirhoe's spectacular testimonial from within the burial chamber gives a unique perspective of the "deceased" woman experiencing her own funeral rites.2007, Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, →ISBN, page 223. From the entry funeral rite
  • The "entierro de la sardina," the burial of the sardine, is a Galician custom popular in many villages on Ash Wednesday.1999, [1882], Emilia Pardo Bazán, translated by Walter Borenstein, The Tribune of the People, page 253. From the entry Galician
  • But I would gladly dump every ounce of that gold into the ocean, just to give them a decent burial.1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon. From the entry shoah
  • I witnessed the slow burial of dead shells and bones, whose long journey toward fossildom was just beginning.1998, Peter D. Ward, Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time, page 9. From the entry fossildom
  • The old, helpless, bedridden inmates lying often in their own filth awaiting death and burial in potters field, alone and unknown.1984 December 29, Raymond Latham, “The Plight of a Lover”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 5. From the entry potter's field
  • Burial sites, memorial mounds and markers have also been associated with Ch'ü Yüan since at least Sung times.1980, Laurence A. Schneider, A Madman of Ch'u: The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent, University of California Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry Tzu-kuei
  • Hart's Island has been used for the past 50 years as a potter's field for the burial of the paupers.1925. Hastings Hornell Hart, Two Reports on the Reorganization and Reconstruction of the New York Prison System (Prison Association of New…. From the entry potter's field
  • Peter's contain frequent references to the burial of chrisom children.1904, R. M. Serjeantson, A History of the Church of St. Peter, Northampton, Together with the Chapels of Kingsthorpe and Upton, page 118. From the entry chrisom child
  • Coffined graves contained a burial within a wooden coffin or recptacle, and having such a grave would indicate additional expense and therefore suggest higher status.2021, Stephen Rippon, Neil Holbrook, Studies in the Roman and Medieval Archaeology of Exeter, page 568. From the entry coffined
  • That's how they get the ashes to go into those little memorial bottles they give to families to throw to the winds instead of burial."2017, Leon Shure, “Littlemayor, a City of Brunswik Mystery”, in The Brunswik Mystery Trilogy, chapter 9, page 291. From the entry any body
  • The churchyard is therefore still the final resting place of Kingstonians, as is the Memorial Garden, which was once the church 'overflow' burial ground.2014, Julian McCarthy, Secret Kingston Upon Thames, →ISBN. From the entry Kingstonian
  • It closely matches a geometrically designed gold object found far away at a burial site called Bush Barrow near Stonehenge in Wiltshire.2007 April 6, Jennifer Viegas, “Stonehenge Amulets Worn by Elite”, in Discovery News. From the entry skeuomorph
  • The records of Stepney parish note the burial of Henry Rainsford "an old sailer sometyme beadle of Ratclife and now a pencioner."2002, Cheryl A. Fury, Tides in the Affairs of Men. From the entry sailer
  • The primary concerns in the development of side-channel habitat are channel stability, potential for deposition and burial, and disturbance of existing riparian and wetland habitats.1998, Sacramento River Bank Projection Project, Implementation of Streambank Protection for the Lower American River. From the entry side-channel

Meaning of burial

  1. noun The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.

Full definition of burial

Questions about burial in a sentence

How do you use burial in a sentence?
Burial is used as a noun. For example: “His whole family was present at his burial.”
What is a short sentence with burial?
“Birdy especially got cranked up about home burial.”
What does burial mean?
Burial means the act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.

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