How To Use Unburied In A Sentence
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On top of this was the smell of unwashed men and their festering wounds, cooking food and fermenting beer, unburied rubbish, and filth, the ammoniacal reek of the latrine pits and the dung heaps, and the even more biting stench of unburied corpses.
Warlock
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The best hope lay in wearying out the besiegers; and there seemed to be more chance of this since the Gauls often could be seen from the heights, burying the corpses of their dead; their tall, bony forms looked gaunt and drooping, and, here and there, unburied carcasses lay amongst the ruins.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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By his son, Theodorus Van Wyck, Esq., of Fishkill Hook, who remembers to have been shown, within the last forty years, by an individual then living, the bones of a "skinner," or cowboy, still lying unburied in a defile of the mountains.
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes
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In January of 1979 the prime minister left for a summit in Guadeloupe, and on the news bulletins scenes from the coldest British winter in sixteen years, with the streets full of trash and the dead unburied, alternated with footage from the Caribbean of a relaxed Callaghan in open-necked shirt, working on his tan with the other colossi of the age — Jimmy Carter, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and Helmut Schmidt.
The Chap on Duty
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When the camp was liberated on April 15, 1945, the British found 10,000 unburied bodies, and 40,000 sick, starving, or wounded.
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The dead marshes, with their unburied soldiers could be seen as the First World War trenches where Tolkien fought.
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He ordered her to cast his unburied body into the middle of the public square.
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He was the last survivor, and before he passed on, he proudly told me that they were successful in eradicating the foul unburied creature.
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In Euripedes there are traces of the belief that the unburied dead could not enter Hades, but were condemned to haunt the earth to which they remained indissolubly bound.
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Mexican marines discovered 72 unburied corpses at a ranch after a gun battle with suspected gang members.
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Behind our billet was the open country where Nature, the great mother, was busy; the butterflies flitted over the soldiers '(p. 262) graves, the grass grew over unburied dead men, who seemed to be sinking into the ground, apple trees threw out a wealth of blossom which the breezes flung broadcast to earth like young lives in the whirlwind of war.
The Red Horizon
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The alternative to this is to leave the cable unburied but with CRP protection over the unburied sections until such time as the flotels have left the site.
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As they continue on the road, the sky is filled with carrion birds and wolves feed on the bodies of unburied orcs.
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To all the race of Cadmus shall this be proclaimed, that whosoe'er is caught decking his corpse with wreaths or giving it burial, shall be requited with death; unwept, unburied let him lie, a prey to birds.
The Phoenissae
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He slowly unburied himself from the gravel and continued on his journey.
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There lieth by the ships a dead man unbewailed, unburied, Patroklos; him will I not forget, while I abide among the living and my knees can stir.
The Iliad
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I remember studying Propertius with him, and the visit of the dead Cynthia, her bones grinding, the reference to the unburied Patroclus.
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The seed was found buried during an excavation of an ancient mountain fortress - so they unburied it, sat around wondering what to do with it for a while before burying it again.
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This is an administration so wedded to spin and manipulation that it is seeking to blacken a decent man's reputation even as his body lies unburied.
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The fighting was some of the worst in the war, with wounded being hit again as they lay on stretchers, and the smell of unburied bodies polluting the position.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health is saying that they fear the spread of diseases because of the number of unburied corpses.
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At these sites, the unburied or exhumed bones of the dead were left visible to make the genocide unavoidable.
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Even when victims die of drowning or injury and do not pose an immediate health risk, unburied corpses still hinder the efforts of relief workers.
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The thousands daily knelled out of the world, who lie in gorgeous sepulchres, or rot unburied on the surface of the earth, excite no emotion compared to that conjured up by the meanest dead at our feet.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
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Has not the poetic legacy of the avant-garde already begun to resemble a blasted library, bestrewn with the unburied cadavers of lunatics and suicides — all the beautiful, but misguided, losers who have martyred themselves to untelevised revolutions?
Writing and Failure (Part 1) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Mexican marines discovered 72 unburied corpses at a ranch after a gun battle with suspected gang members.
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Other frequenters of the cemetery I see before me — dark, silent figures, figures of persons whom still unsevered cords of memory seemed to have bound to the place for the rest of their lives, and compelled to wander, like unburied corpses, in quest of suitable tombs.
Through Russia
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The present king disowns indeed all knowledge of a dangerous aitu; he declares the souls of the unburied were only wanderers in limbo, lacking an entrance to the proper country of the dead, unhappy, nowise hurtful.
In the South Seas
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Although the reader does not witness firsthand the killing of Beau Boutan, his dead body remains unburied and visible throughout most of the text.
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Hours later, in the cold winds of winter, Yeltsik and Victor stood by the unburied soldier, the wind whipping their ears about, stinging their face, numbing their cheeks, fingers, and toes.
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Since they remained unburied and unshriven, these unfortunates, as was noted earlier, were regarded as unclean dead.
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As they continue on the road, the sky is filled with carrion birds and wolves feed on the bodies of unburied orcs.
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Graves were everywhere; dead soldiers and horses lay unburied; and destroyed wagons and caissons littered the area.
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So you will have mounds of unburied corpses on the streets, which means typhoid or cholera outbreaks.
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The dusty barren ground was littered with piles of unburied corpses.
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He unburied it and allowed all his knowledge of texture and color to play over it.
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As Julia Kristeva writes, an unburied corpse is ‘death infecting life.’
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Harris and Davy found that the net photosynthesis of Elytrigia juncea after 2 d of complete burial was 30% lower than unburied controls.
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Since they remained unburied and unshriven, these unfortunates, as was noted earlier, were regarded as unclean dead.
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She had, for instance, several narratives about the ghost of an unburied child.
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People perished in their millions and lay in stacks unburied because the earth was too hard to be dug.
SACRAMENT
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It also meant hospitals reduced to emergency cover by striking medical aides, and the dead left unburied by striking municipal gravediggers.
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The postmistress said it was the spirits of the unburied dead up there on the site bringing bad luck.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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And there I lie one time upon the strand, another in the salt sea's surge, drifting ever up and down upon the billows, unwept, unburied; but now am I hovering o'er the head of my dear mother Hecuba, a disembodied spirit, keeping my airy station these three days, ever since my poor mother came from Troy to linger here in
Hecuba
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A few months later other concentration camps are liberated - among them Bergen-Belsen, where thousands of unburied bodies are strewn over the ground.
