burial

How To Use burial In A Sentence

• A man of good humour and a great sense of fun, he enjoyed popularity among his teaching colleagues and pupils, many of whom were present at the removal of remains and burial.
• Often the burial site is destroyed, or there is a differential representation of habitats.
• Thousands of people applied for the 200 seats available for the public at the reburial. Times, Sunday Times
• Again, a fear of ghosts walking may be the best explanation for burials that appear ‘respectful’ in all other ways.
• It is argued, based on archaeological and ethnohistoric data, that the layout of the mound, burials, and charnel features is patterned after Native American notions of the cosmos.
• The area around the building has long been used as a burial ground for unbaptised children, and the small headstones marking these sad graves can be seen.
• The body was washed and prepared for burial by the women of the family (or by the monastic infirmarer, in the case of a monk or nun), and either shrouded or placed in a coffin.
• Reference is made to the dating presence of shells and glacial deposits, and the burial chronology and body size reduction evidence.
• There he showed her the burial plot that he and my grandmother had selected as their final resting place. Times, Sunday Times
• However, Jenkins said demands for reburial were now coming from minority groups in Britain, including pagans and druids, while Manchester consulted the group Honouring the Ancient Dead, which campaigns for reburial of pre-Christian British remains, before removing the Worsley Man head. Museums avoid displaying human remains 'out of respect'