Sentence examples for been unburied from inspiring English sources

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been unburied

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To dig up, to remove from the ground.

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after you've been unburied...

Mottled gray and scarred by deep cracks, it looked as if it could have just been unburied by archaeologists.

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"Every day that these bones are unburied defiles them," said Rabbi Lazer Stern of the United States-based Society for the Preservation of Jewish Holy Sites.

There are unburied bones          in the fields at sun-up, skylarks singing,          starved children begging chocolate on the tracks.

Waving flags and beating drums, they celebrated their dead - hundreds of whom are still unburied nearly 18 months after the war ended.

From its epic dawn to its tragic high noon, Greek literature expressed tremendous cultural anxiety about what happens when the dead are left unburied.

Although no victim was left unburied, many had to wait for up to 10 days before the coffin could be removed from the house.

According to the law of the polis (state) ordained by Creon, Polynices must be left unburied outside the city walls as a traitor, carrion for the dogs and birds.

It seems improbable that so many bodies would be left unburied, or that people, especially Egyptians, would engage in skull-crunching on the slain bodies of their compatriots.

The victims exhibited signs of torture and were left unburied.

The bodies of those killed at Krečane were left unburied for two weeks.

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