BURY in a Sentence

Learn BURY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BURY
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Scarlett," she whispered, "we must get him out of here and bury him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
6  Take the hint, then; and when thou art dead, never bury thyself under living people's noses.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
7  They talked excitedly about where they should bury Mr. Shimerda; I gathered that the neighbours were all disturbed and shocked about something.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
8  "There I will bury him, if I dig the grave myself," she say.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
9  'Jan wants to bury his dog there,' Antonia explained.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
10  The swift breeze seemed to Edna to bury the sting of it into the pores of her face and hands.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XII
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.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  He went from the fields into a thick woods, as if resolved to bury himself.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
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.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  Good, thought Huck, they will bury it in the old quarry.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  Very well, he thought, let them bury it there; it won't be hard to find.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
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.