interment
Example Sentences
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Neath Port Talbot Council said it was "no longer possible to find suitable space next to earlier interments without risking disturbance to existing remains".
From BBC
“Here’s our North Star: Does this help us win?” he said in a mid-December statement announcing his turnabout and the study’s unceremonious interment.
From Los Angeles Times
When he learned of Lanchester's interment, during the course of his regular research into historic death certificates, he decided she would be his next memorial project.
From BBC
Someone who exhumed a recent interment without that knowledge might well have discovered something difficult to explain.
His funeral ceremony at the National Cathedral will be held the following day — which President Biden has decreed a national day of mourning — followed by a private interment in his Georgia hometown, Plains.
From Los Angeles Times
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