interment
Example Sentences
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Someone who exhumed a recent interment without that knowledge might well have discovered something difficult to explain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
His funeral ceremony at the National Cathedral will be held the following day — which President Biden has decreed a national day of mourning — followed by a private interment in his Georgia hometown, Plains.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2025
“This moment,” said the Rev. Jesse Wendell Mapson, a local pastor involved in planning the commemoration and interment of the 19, “has not come without some pain, discomfort and tension.”
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2024
The governor has ordered that flags be flown at half-staff on the day of Wallin’s interment.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2023
They looked a long time for an area of earth among the rock faces large enough for the interment.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
