Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for inter. Search instead for intwi.
Definitions

inter

[in-tur] / ɪnˈtɜr /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

“Historically Pakistan always wanted to be seen as primus inter pares”—first among equals—“in the Muslim world,” says Farzana Shaikh, an expert on Pakistan at the British think tank Chatham House, in a phone interview.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

The wet may provide more grip when it's very wet, but the extra flexibility of the inter will always win out if the conditions are variable, as they were at Silverstone.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2025

There are no signs of violence, and the grave was probably opened multiple times over the course of several decades to inter new bodies.

From Science Magazine Jun. 19, 2024

Shiv, as the funeral ends and the cemetery prepares to inter her father: “I’m intrigued to see how he gets out of this one.”

From New York Times May 21, 2023

“Ar, I always knew yeh’d find it hard ter squeeze me inter yer timetables,” he said gruffly, pouring them more tea.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

"But in that moment, why Max didn't stop for inters as well? He kept one lap longer than me but with a different tyre."

From BBC Jun. 1, 2023

Two laps after Perez pitted, Leclerc and Verstappen also stopped for inters, but such had been Perez's pace, Leclerc emerged from the pits behind the Red Bull, albeit still ahead of Verstappen.

From BBC May 29, 2022

According to its website, South-View Cemetery was founded after the end of the Civil War by former slaves and inters the bodies of more than 80,000 African Americans.

From Fox News Jul. 30, 2020

If no relative claimed her remains, Dawn was told, Nakesha would most likely be buried on Hart Island, where the city inters unclaimed bodies in mass graves.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2018

So Jones inters it in the darkest corner of the music-cabinet.

From The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler

And Stalin himself, whose body was initially interred in the same mausoleum that housed the embalmed Vladimir Lenin, was subjected to criticism for some of his evil deeds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

A lot of the people interred there are from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and now it’s becoming a place where filmmakers and musicians and artists are considering for their final resting place.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

Evidence suggests the site was prepared with care, and the victims were interred with personal belongings such as bronze jewellery and ceramic drinking vessels.

From Science Daily Mar. 9, 2026

His body is interred at the Washington headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, which also contains a small museum in his honour.

From BBC Oct. 28, 2025

Theevil that mendoo lives after them, Thegoodisoft interred with their bones;...”

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

It notes that mass burials and mass graves were "not a customary way of interring the dead in the Roman Empire", and were mostly used in extreme situations and mass casualty events.

From BBC Oct. 18, 2025

After regaining control of Taejon in the fall of 1950, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at a United Nations military cemetery.

From Seattle Times Sep. 21, 2023

There are enormous practical difficulties, often involving by-laws on the burial of human remains, when it comes to interring so many bodies.

From The Guardian Jul. 4, 2020

What MIT tried to do was suggest that the good Koch did for the institution’s endowment should live after him, while interring the evil with his bones.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2019

We wouldn’t be interring him in the Atlantic, but a pauper’s grave was just as permanent.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




Vocabulary lists containing inter


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training