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Example Sentences

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While this method was less efficient than that of modern birds, it may have been well suited to their nesting style, which appears to have shifted from buried nests to semi-open ones.

From Science Daily

If a Jew in hiding died, how could he be buried?

From Literature

He clung on and buried his head in her shoulder, crying out for Marlene.

From Literature

Beneath Pine Island Glacier lies an enormous buried granite mass, nearly 100 km wide and 7 km thick, roughly half the size of Wales in the UK.

From Science Daily

Learned Hand, he said, is not meant to replace judges but rather give them more time to actually make decisions rather than sit buried under impossible caseloads.

From Los Angeles Times