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Example sentences for "buried"

Lexicographically close words:
buri; burial; buriall; burials; burie; buriers; buries; burin; burla; burlap
  1. Vnder two points there was a crosse set vp, and a man buried at the foote of it.

  2. Tobias Atkins the gunners boy died of the fluxe, who was buried the 6.

  3. Magnolia Cemetery, which is just outside of Charleston and which Dee had refused to see without Zebedee, certainly would be a nice place to be buried in.

  4. A strange sight met my gaze: Dee, with her arms thrown around a youth who crouched on the floor, his face buried in his hands while his whole frame was shaken with sobs!

  5. I think it is because all the persons who suffered at the death of the persons buried there are dead, too.

  6. The story goes that the woman buried there insisted that her husband should go to no trouble or expense to mark her grave.

  7. A cry in the night from a man buried alive; a new note in German poetry--was sage ich?

  8. And I should have been buried honorably in the 'House of Life,' and my son would have said Kaddish.

  9. For he found me buried alive under a mountain of ashes, and he drew me out and kindled the ashes to fire, so that I cheered myself thereat.

  10. But to a casual observer, they irresistibly suggest the notion that a material weapon has struck the ground, and buried itself at the bottom of the hole.

  11. The unsophisticated savage, holding that in that equal sky his faithful dog would bear him company, naturally enough had the dog in question killed and buried with him, in order that it might follow him to the happy hunting-grounds.

  12. Still, the balance of evidence certainly seems to show that a little very rude and almost shapeless hand-made pottery has really been discovered amongst the buried caves where palæolithic men made for ages their chief dwelling-places.

  13. For just as the long barrow answers in form to the buried human corpse and the chambered hut that surrounds and encloses it, so does the round barrow answer in form to the urn containing the calcined ashes of the cremated barbarian.

  14. All the world over, this simple and easy belief, that the buried stone axe is a thunderbolt, exists among Europeans and savages alike.

  15. The big stone hut in which we found ourselves was, in fact, a buried cromlech, covered all over (until we opened it) by the earth of the barrow.

  16. She died before grandma was born and was buried in the family lot near their house.

  17. We searched in the grass, about four feet tall, and found it in about the center of the field, half buried in the earth.

  18. Hugh John scratched the freestone of a half-buried tomb with a nail till told to stop.

  19. It chanced on the very night when Edie and Steenie had given a skinful of sore bones to the German impostor Dousterswivel, that the Countess of Glenallan, mother of the Earl, was brought to be buried at midnight among the ruins of St. Ruth.

  20. He leaned upon the armchair and then fell heavily into it, his head buried in his hands.

  21. We buried Ben Cameron, then went down and brought our outfit up, Hawk watchin' me all the while.

  22. She trembled and sinking in a chair buried her face in her hands.

  23. We made a pretty good fight of it at that, but they buried us by sheer weight of numbers.

  24. They've buried the Trinity clean out of sight.

  25. But I waited a few days after we buried Cameron--makin' believe I was satisfied with everything and he believed me, and at last he fell asleep tired with keepin' watch on me.

  26. On hearing of Jeanne's approach, King Charles buried himself among his retainers, either because he was still mistrustful and hesitating, or because he had other persons to speak to, or for some other reason.

  27. If it had been buried and hidden it was not very long before, because the rust could easily be removed by rubbing.

  28. It was said to be the sword of the great Charles Martel, long buried and forgotten.

  29. Porphyrius carried away the body and had it buried reverently as that of a servant of Jesus Christ.

  30. Our lads were buried yonder without so much as a drum tapped or a musket fired; and that's not Christian burial for British soldiers.

  31. Well, the poor little chap chanced to be standing, in this rig out, down by the gate of Gunner's Meadow, where they had buried two score and over of his comrades.

  32. Well, sir, they buried him three days after; and at first my father was minded to say nothing about his dream (as he thought it).

  33. We buried her then, and went out back to recuperate.

  34. He took the path across Gunner's Meadow--where they buried most of the bodies afterward.

  35. All along the dark chimneys of the brain, clinging like myriads of swallows deep-buried and slumbrous in quiet and in soot, are the countless thoughts which lately winged the wide heaven of conscious day.

  36. She sank down on the floor and crossed her arms on the window sill and buried her face on her arms.

  37. Buried in Pansy's heart was one secret, one sorrow: that her mother had been poor.

  38. You're the tree that I want to dig up, and take home, and plant, and live under, and be buried by.

  39. Know then that all the city mourneth for this maiden, saying that she dieth wrongfully for a very noble deed, in that she buried her brother.

  40. But coming on their way to the body of Prince Polynices, they took it up, and washed it, and buried that which remained of it, and raised over the ashes a great mound of earth.

  41. Buried indeed it was not, but rather covered with dust.

  42. We buried the poor little body beneath a piece of luxuriant turf, and stole back into Cruces like guilty things.

  43. The thieves usually buried their spoil like dogs, as they were; but this fellow had only time to hide it behind a bush, where it was found on the following morning, and claimed by me.

  44. Perhaps it is so everywhere; but the haste with which the Cruces people buried their memory seemed indecent.

  45. No person buried alive in the twentieth century.

  46. The acrimony of the past was buried to a very large extent.

  47. Many cases have come to light in the nineteenth century proving beyond a shadow of doubt that unfortunate men and women had been buried alive.

  48. It seems as though the light and buoy must be swept to destruction and buried from sight.

  49. One of these temples is in Hellas, buried under the fall of a mountain which Zeus, being angry, hurled down upon it.

  50. I always wondered what it would be like," said Jimmy in low, even tones, "to be buried alive.

  51. As the marching corps toil through the church door-- For the rich dead must be buried in lead; Their pamper'd forms are too good for the worms!

  52. Fix'd to the sod, Bitter tears his cheeks bedew; His broken heart is buried too!

  53. I also told her that squirrels usually buried more cones than were eaten.

  54. Gulches are filled, water-courses invaded, rivers bent far to one side, and groves slowly buried alive.

  55. We buried her beneath the rosebush near which she and Rex had played.

  56. Harriet asked many questions concerning the cones,--why they were buried, how the squirrel found them when they were buried in the snow, and what became of those which were left buried.

  57. During a single storm a hilltop may dissolve, a mountain-side be fluted with slides, a grove be overturned and swept away by an avalanche, or a lake be buried forever.

  58. Strip off these carpets and often all that remains is a barren exposure of sand or gravel on bald or broken rocks, whose surfaces and edges have been draped or buried by its green leaves and red berries.

  59. It may have been hidden by a jay; or, as is more likely, it may have grown from one of the uneaten cones which a Douglas squirrel had buried for winter food.

  60. When I had almost reached the jagged rocks, the snow-cornice caved upon me, and not only buried me, but came perilously near knocking me into the depths beneath.

  61. These cones were buried near a tree, in a dead limb of which the squirrel had a hole and a home.

  62. Many of us were long buried beneath the snow.

  63. Trees have tongues, and in this forest I interviewed many patriarchs, had stories from saplings, examined the mouldy, musty records of many a family tree, and dug up some buried history.

  64. In my haste I caught one of my webbed shoes on the top of a gnarly, storm-beaten tree that was buried and hidden in the snow.

  65. Last of all the body was buried within the sacred inclosure amid great apparent grief from the old women, they mourning as over the loss of relative or friend.

  66. He destroyed or buried all his plate and other property and set out.

  67. They seem to have been identified with the spirit of departed friends, for occasionally a corpse was buried beneath the house to insure their presence.

  68. It is also a suggestive fact that implements and clothes were buried with the body, care being taken that nothing should press heavily upon it.

  69. The body of the chief rots, as does the material substance of the articles buried with it; but the soul of every article follows the soul of its owner, to serve its own peculiar end in the land of phantoms.

  70. XII-94] The Miztecs placed the gates of paradise within the cavern of Chalcatongo, and the grandees of the kingdom were therefore eager to be buried within its precincts, in order to be near the abode of bliss.

  71. Gama has adduced several instances of both practices, in the part of his dissertation which relates to the statue of the goddess of death found buried in the great Square of Mexico of which he, and lately Mr Nebel, have given copies.

  72. Quetzalcoatl, very heavy in heart for all the misfortunes that this rival god was bringing upon the Toltecs, burned his beautiful houses of silver and of shell, and ordered other precious things to be buried in the mountains and ravines.

  73. At the close of the contest the party who considered it had won the moral victory would be cleared away, or buried neatly on the spot, according to taste: and the discussion, until the arrival of the next generation, was voted closed.

  74. The last I saw of London was the long line of electric lamps bordering the Embankment; later nothing remained but a faint luminosity buried beneath darkness.

  75. The king said that he should see that she was buried very grandly.

  76. As he lay buried in his thoughts he grew very, very drowsy and dreamy, and at last, he fell asleep.

  77. After we had buried him, we talked with an old woodman who told us that there's a demon of the woods who had probably slain the knight.

  78. McNevin’s remains are buried in Newtown; and in the next plot are the remains of another United Irishman--William Sampson.

  79. The telegrams of the day announce that this Mr. Gladstone was buried in London this week--Rossa.

  80. Nor are McNevin’s remains buried either, under that monument erected to him in St. Paul’s.

  81. On Sunday he was buried in the family tomb in the Abbey field.

  82. She is buried in Drumcolloher; my father is buried in Tullilease.

  83. McNevin is buried in Newtown, Long Island; and Thomas Addis Emmet is buried in that graveyard in Second Street, Second Avenue, New York.

  84. It was the first death in his family, and the child was buried in the plot belonging to its mother’s sister.

  85. A few Irish families were buried in the cemetery, and he did not want to have them disturbed.

  86. The treasures buried with the dead were too potent an attraction, and the robber of the tomb braved for their sake the terrors of both this world and the next.

  87. The royal mummy was torn into shreds, and the porcelain figures buried with it dashed to the ground.

  88. Joseph was buried in Egypt, not at Hebron, though he had made the Israelites swear before his death that his mummy should be eventually taken to Palestine.

  89. The idols that had been carried from Mesopotamia were buried "under the oak which was by Shechem," along with the ear-rings of the women.

  90. At Beth-lehem Jacob was but a few miles distant from Hebron, where Isaac still lived, and where at his death he was buried by his sons Jacob and Esau in the family tomb of Machpelah.

  91. He died soon afterwards "in a good old age," and was buried at Machpelah along with his wife.

  92. Isaac died eventually at Hebron, and was buried in the family tomb of Machpelah.

  93. Did she remember some long-buried love, and the child left to perish upon the steps of St. Jean le Rond, but grown up to be her secret pride in the person of the great mathematician and philosopher d'Alembert?

  94. At his death, nearly forty years later he ordered her portrait by Gerard to be returned, but her ring was buried with him.

  95. The pure-hearted young girl buried her beauty and her sorrows in the convent of the Carmelites, and was no more heard of in the gay world.

  96. But even they give up the ghost at length, and are buried hastily with scant reverence.

  97. Muther say I'd been dead and buried before this if'n it hadn't been for Miss Mary.

  98. Mary Cary bent over the rose in her hand and buried her lips in its damp depths.

  99. In his face was the look she had seen in the long ago, and suddenly hers was buried in her hands.

  100. She has always done as I said and gone where I decided, but this year she persists in staying in this dead-and-buried place, and says she don't want to go away.

  101. She threw out her hands as though to ward off some dreadful thing, then dropped in the big wing chair and buried her face in her arms.

  102. I must have been dead and buried not to have heard no speculations.

  103. Then she buried her face in Mr. Hamilton's jacket and sobbed a confession.

  104. The average person, no matter how humble or obscure, is pretty certain to be talked about on the day of his funeral, and Marcellus was to be buried that afternoon.

  105. The dead past, the past he no doubt had believed buried forever, had risen from the tomb to confront him.

  106. Mothers and fathers of several of her schoolmates had been buried at sea.


  107. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    buried alive; buried city; buried here; buried treasure; buried under