interment

Example Sentences

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“Here’s our North Star: Does this help us win?” he said in a mid-December statement announcing his turnabout and the study’s unceremonious interment.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025

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

Military veterans are entitled to interment at a national or state cemetery, but White Tanks becomes the final resting place for hundreds of people annually, with 513 burials there last year.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2024

“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

Cora reached for her hair before realizing that after her interment there was no improving her appearance.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead