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buried

[ UK /bˈɛɹɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛɹid/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. placed in a grave
    the hastily buried corpses

How To Use buried In A Sentence

  • If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating. A Far From Model Marriage
  • Another tomb of interest (and of which we will speak in extenso in the next instalment of this series) is the tomb of the Pope Clement II, the only pope to be buried north of the Alps. The statue, sculpted by the same (unknown) sculptor as the Horseman, was originally the slab of the tomb, which remains on the west choir, behind the cathedra: Catholic Bamberg: The Cathedral
  • Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity. Patsy
  • Another daughter, Elizabeth, died of fever at age two in 1764 and was buried in the Negro cemetery alongside Nina.
  • Considering my diminutiveness, the size of the pail in my lap, and my drinking out of it my breath held and my face buried to the ears in foam, it was rather difficult to estimate how much I drank. Chapter 3
  • I wrapped my arms around him and he buried his face into my shoulder like he had earlier that evening, shoulders heaving as he wrapped his arms around my waist.
  • If they are not cremated, put to sea, left to rot or to wild animals, they are often buried.
  • The thing buried in the knicker drawer could end up on the coffee table. Times, Sunday Times
  • His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow.
  • In the interim, the auklet egg was left in a carton buried in the sand to keep it safe and cool.
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