BURIAL in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for BURIAL, such as:
1. The priest prepared the body for burial.
2. Cremation is more common than burial in some countries.
3. The sale of big furniture barely paid the expenses of his burial.
4. I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial.
5. The burial will take place at the Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall.
2. Cremation is more common than burial in some countries.
3. The sale of big furniture barely paid the expenses of his burial.
4. I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial.
5. The burial will take place at the Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall.
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Meanings and Examples of BURIAL
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burial
n. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
n. concealing something under the ground
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar for the burial of their community.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
2 The burial will take place at the Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
3 Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
4 The sale of big furniture barely paid the expenses of his burial.
5 There is a point where depth is tantamount to burial, and where light becomes extinct.
6 Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, and sudden crumbling of the earth.
7 Some minutes after, the superior of the convent sent to inform the Musketeers that the burial would take place at midday.
8 So he threw a quick apologetic glance at Carreen and, bowing his head again, began reciting from memory the Episcopal burial service which he had often read over slaves buried at Twelve Oaks.
9 I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.
10 A fine, sleety snow was beginning to fall, and everyone was afraid of another storm and anxious to have the burial over with.
11 I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial.
12 Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel of beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof, otherwise nothing in the house was touched.
13 He stood on a raised stage, under his own loom; and, looking up at the shape the loom took, and hearing the burial service distinctly read, he knew that he was there to suffer death.
14 Having chosen to exhume them, after ten years of burial, she has a weird array.
15 We performed the usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his hammock with a thirty-six pound shot at his head and his heels, off El Giglio island.
Example Sentence:
1 The priest prepared the body for burial.
2 Cremation is more common than burial in some countries.
3 According to the marine biologist, the Miami Circle dolphin burial is the first to be found outside the Pacific Northwest.