Sentence examples for bury from inspiring English sources

The word 'bury' is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to express the physical act of placing something in the ground, often for the purpose of hiding it. It can also mean to ignore or forget something. For example: His father buried the family treasure in the backyard.

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bury

verb

To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.

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He was also physically fit, and worked from morning till night, gardening and digging holes right up to his arrest, so we think he would have been able to bury bodies so that they wouldn't have been discovered".

The snow itself represents death, the great equaliser, come to bury the everyday dreams and heartbreaking anxieties which consume Joyce's characters.

Yesterday's royal engagement announcement gave the opportunity for the PM to bury the news, claims Campbell: "So to midwives, and an article Mr Cameron wrote in The Sun earlier this year (pre-election) saying that a Tory government would deliver, no pun intended, more midwives to help the hard-pressed midwives we already have.

I twist (never cut) off the tops, making sure there are no slugs anywhere, then bury them in the sand.

That said, could we take the word "fempire" and bury it in a box far below the earth?

Dating back to the Liao dynasty (916-1125), the site has been a grotesquely expanded – huge new courtyards of conspicuously lacquered wood bury the smaller, faded original halls.

The UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, newly set up to coordinate the fight against the disease, has set targets to isolate 70% of suspected cases in west Africa and safely bury 70% of the dead within the next 60 days – described as the 70-70-60 plan.

Only after midnight, when the shelling eased, could we bury him near an olive tree.

He knew he was risking his life by doing so, but he decided to stay and bury his people.

Events take a sinister turn when the friends spot a dead goat in the pool: "Decomposition; the new fragrance by John Paul Goatier Glenisterr's character jokes as Beesley's Woody manfully digs a hole to bury it.

(Hopefully that's no omen for young Prince George's forthcoming visit: tens of thousands of expected spectators failed to turn up in the heat and dust, and the caterers had to bury truckloads of meat pies; a military flyover drowned out an unimpressed Dame Nellie Melba and one aircraft crashed before parliament, killing the pilot).

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