Sample sentences for INTERMENT

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Definition

burying a dead body

She requested interment in a crypt rather than beneath the ground.

It had not been possible, he said, to bring back their lamented comrade's remains for interment on the farm, but he had ordered a large wreath to be made from the laurels in the farmhouse garden and sent down to be placed on Boxer's grave.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

interment = to be buried (of a dead body)

They looked a long time for an area of earth among the rock faces large enough for the interment.
Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon
As our procession wound its way to the distant grave site I feared that my two beloveds were going to be interred in a golf course.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Imagination will readily supply the meager recital of poor Bartleby's interment.
Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
That afternoon all the dead were interred, the grave of Sergeant Dunham being dug in the centre of the glade, beneath the shade of a huge elm.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
He is interred on Mount Zion, the only member of the Nazi Party buried there.
Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
I watched yesterday, as she was interred in one of the two small cemeteries in town.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
Interment in the National Cemetery seemed fitting for the young man known universally as a "Marine's Marine."
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
Theevil that mendoo lives after them, The goodisoft interred with their bones; ....
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
Washington had been interred in the family vault at Mount Vernon, but this was the nation's funeral for its first President and greatest hero.
David McCullough -- John Adams
And I remembered how intensely I felt about my interment.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
IN LONDON LIES A KNIGHT A POPE INTERRED.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
It gave him dark solace, planning the details of his interment.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Let him be interred in holy ground.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
In the mean while the preparations were made for the interment of Hutter.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones: So let it be with Caesar.
William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar
Had Ned ever reached Winterfell, to be interred beside his brother Brandon in the dark crypts beneath the castle?
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
Cocooned in silence, interred by the white hard cold of winter, and unable to move.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride

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