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How to use bury in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Bury means to kill or murder. Example: “Grandpa’s still in excellent health. He’ll bury us all!”

Examples of bury by meaning

verbTo outlive.

  • Grandpa’s still in excellent health. He’ll bury us all!

verbTo place in the ground.

  • bury a bone; bury the embers
  • Later that morning, they wrapped Ian in a wildebeest skin and buried him near a shepherd tree.2013, Eleanor Morse, White Dog Fell From the Sky

verbTo hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.

  • She buried her face in the pillow, and I buried mine in my hands.
  • The splinter has buried itself under the nail.
  • The information I need is buried behind needless details.

verbTo render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.

  • vocals buried in the mix

verbTo overwhelm.

  • They buried us in paperwork.
  • Beyond the daily firefighting, these managers and executives are overwhelmed in details and buried in administrative work2013 November 17, Mike Weinberg, “Are You Moving the Needle on High Payoff Activity or Drowning in Details & Admin?”, in (Please provide...
  • We live in an age when people are buried with information and nobody knows anything2014 April 25, Kelly Egan, “Egan: All the information, but far too few answers”, in Ottawa Citizen

verbTo suppress and hide away in one's mind.

  • secrets kept buried
  • She buried her shame and put on a smiling face.

verbTo put an end to; to abandon.

  • They buried their argument and shook hands.

verbTo score (a goal).

  • You could feel the relief after Bendtner collected Wilshere's raking pass before cutting inside Carlos Edwards and burying his shot beyond Fulop.2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1)”, in BBC

More sentences with bury

  • She was buried with her mom and hopefully they are together now.From the entry hopefully
  • The pirates buried their seizings and marked the map with an X.From the entry seizing
  • Marbles were among the treasures found buried in the ruins of Pompeii.From the entry marbles
  • They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.From the entry remains
  • Burying its head in the sand is fabulously attributed to the ostrich.From the entry fabulously
  • The 8 ball was buried behind the 10 and the 15.From the entry 8 ball
  • They need to calm down and bury the hatchet before someone gets hurt.From the entry bury the hatchet
  • Dozens of unworked obsidian cobbles were found buried with the deceased.From the entry unworked
  • Call before you dig — there is a gas line buried in the area.From the entry gas line
  • Vaudeville's dead, and TV's the box they're going to bury it in!From the entry the box they're going to bury it in
  • Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.From the entry bound
  • We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.From the entry game
  • The treasure is buried two meters below the surface.From the entry below
  • Family members had been buried in the vault for centuries.From the entry vault
  • The cowboys buried their trash next to the extinguished fire.From the entry extinguished
  • The murderer was buried in unhallowed ground.From the entry unhallowed
  • The buried treasure from the shipwreck was found yesterday.From the entry buried treasure
  • Houdini not only got out of the ropes: he also dug himself out of the hole he had been buried in.From the entry dig out
  • He's buried in the family plot.From the entry plot
  • He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.From the entry deader
  • Pitchpoling occurs when the bow buries itself in the wave ahead while the wave behind lifts the aft section up and over.From the entry pitchpole
  • The news account started by recounting details of the candidate's appearance and buried the lede by not mentioning his new call for tax reform until the 19th paragraph.From the entry bury the lede
  • Underground, buried fiberoptic cables can sense movement, capturing data that is also then analyzed by AI.2026 July 2, “Trump’s $46B ‘smart wall’ races ahead at the border despite low crossing numbers”, in NBC News, sourced from Associated…. From the entry fiberoptic
  • The de minimis trade loophole will be buried in the Cathedral of Congress on May 2.2025 April 17, Vidhi Choudhary, “The death of de minimis is likely to lead to price hikes in e-commerce. The nearly 100-year-old law was…. From the entry de minimis
  • “There are so many historical and significant people buried here,” said Loretta Stanaway, president of FOLHC.2024 June 9, Karina Prieto, “June 9 marks 150 years of burials in Mt. Hope Cemetery”, in WLNS, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2024. From the entry FOLHC
  • We spot several routs of snails moving around, half buried in the sandy beach.2022 December 15, Tania Banerjee, “Offbeat Mumbai: A shorewalk in Juhu”, in Azure Sky Follows. From the entry rout

Meaning of bury

  1. verb To kill or murder.
  2. verb To outlive.
  3. verb To place in the ground.

Full definition of bury

Questions about bury in a sentence

How do you use bury in a sentence?
Bury is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Grandpa’s still in excellent health. He’ll bury us all!”
What is a short sentence with bury?
“secrets kept buried”
What does bury mean?
Bury means to kill or murder.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bury (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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