BURY in a Sentence
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244 example sentences for BURY, such as:
1. Let the dead bury the dead.
2. They dug a pit to bury the body.
3. Their ambitions were finally dead and buried.
4. He buried himself in the country to write a book.
5. The bodies buried in the fine ash slowly decayed.
2. They dug a pit to bury the body.
3. Their ambitions were finally dead and buried.
4. He buried himself in the country to write a book.
5. The bodies buried in the fine ash slowly decayed.
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Meanings and Examples of BURY
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bury
v. cover from sight
v. embed deeply
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 "I'm always your little girl," Scarlett would say and bury her head upon Ellen's breast, her guilt rising up to accuse her.
2 She was a child and mad with fright and she wanted to bury her head in her mother's lap and shut out this sight.
3 Scarlett," she whispered, "we must get him out of here and bury him.
4 I could bury him in the corner of the garden under the arbor--the ground is soft there where Pork dug up the whisky barrel.
5 It may well be conceived, what an unsavory odor such a mass must exhale; worse than an Assyrian city in the plague, when the living are incompetent to bury the departed.
6 Take the hint, then; and when thou art dead, never bury thyself under living people's noses.
7 They talked excitedly about where they should bury Mr. Shimerda; I gathered that the neighbours were all disturbed and shocked about something.
8 "There I will bury him, if I dig the grave myself," she say.
9 'Jan wants to bury his dog there,' Antonia explained.
10 The swift breeze seemed to Edna to bury the sting of it into the pores of her face and hands.
11 It was a common saying, even among little white boys, that it was worth a half-cent to kill a "nigger," and a half-cent to bury one.
12 He went from the fields into a thick woods, as if resolved to bury himself.
13 They always bury it under a ha'nted house or on an island, or under a dead tree that's got one limb sticking out.
14 Good, thought Huck, they will bury it in the old quarry.
15 Very well, he thought, let them bury it there; it won't be hard to find.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 How people in a certain era bury their dead says much about the prevailing attitudes toward death.
2 They dig a small hole in the sand to bury their eggs.
3 Let the dead bury the dead.
4 Do not tell a lot of heart hidden, but the loss of hidden in the depths of bai bury memory can't remember.
5 They dug a pit to bury the body.
6 My hamster died this morning, my friends condole with me and help bury him in the yard.
7 Truth will out, even if buried in a golden coffin.
8 A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent.
9 The memory was buried deep within my subconscious.
10 He buried himself in the country to write a book.
11 The ship was buried, beyond retrieval, at the bottom of the sea.
12 Latest reports say that mud slides buried entire villages.
13 Their ambitions were finally dead and buried.
14 The bodies buried in the fine ash slowly decayed.
15 We buried the general with full military honours.