interment
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Someone who exhumed a recent interment without that knowledge might well have discovered something difficult to explain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
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 ● Jan. 1, 2025
“This moment,” said the Rev. Jesse Wendell Mapson, a local pastor involved in planning the commemoration and interment of the 19, “has not come without some pain, discomfort and tension.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
As Plains busily prepared for a series of public events leading up to Carter’s funeral service and interment here next week, her hometown grieved the loss of its loving matriarch.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Ordinarily at the cemetery the lid of a coffin was lifted a final time before interment, allowing loved ones to say good-bye, but the condition of Anna’s body made that impossible.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Neath Port Talbot council said: "The crematorium grounds can no longer accommodate further interments alongside previous remains."
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
The statement called for demarcated and documented individual graves, saying hasty interments could lead to mental anguish for families as well as social and legal problems.
From Reuters ● Sep. 15, 2023
Lime, he said, was seldom applied during Roman-era interments.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
She’d opted to confine her legislation to a three-decade period, she said, because she didn’t believe record-keeping was comprehensive enough to review all interments since Arlington’s establishment in 1864.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022
A burial ground is attached to the Chapel, and more than fifty interments have taken place since it was appropriated for this purpose in 1843.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman
Vocabulary lists containing interment
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
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