inhumation
Example Sentences
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But it is Mr. Blair’s account of several millennia of inhumation and exhumation, rather than several centuries of fiction writing, that raises the most significant questions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
The materials of which these articles are formed, are jasper, quartz, granite stained by copper, and clay slate, all showing that peculiar time-worn polish which such substances acquire by long inhumation.
From Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines by Samuel George Morton
Save for a few first-century remains in one corner, the graveyard seems to be an inhumation cemetery, used during the second half of the second century—rather an early date for such a cemetery.
From Roman Britain in 1914 by F. (Francis) Haverfield
A living inhumation, where the body exists but as the spirit's sepulchre!
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
In Britain, the burials were at times by inhumation only, and occasionally a great number of bodies were interred in the same barrow: at others, cremation had preceded burial.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
