Examples of interment in a Sentence
a respectful but nonreligious interment in a private cemetery
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Once the coffin was brought into the chapel with an honor guard, the archbishop blessed their remains, and each pallbearer was given a box to carry to the burial vault for interment.
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Romer covers a lot — the first baseball game in Japan, how the San Francisco Seals figured into all of this, World War II, Japanese interment camps, the Giants, and more.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
An interment will be held at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
From the day of death until the interment of an associate justice of the Supreme Court, a secretary of an executive or military department, a former vice president or the governor of a state.
—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Romer covers a lot — the first baseball game in Japan, how the San Francisco Seals figured into all of this, World War II, Japanese interment camps, the Giants, and more.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
An interment will be held at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
From the day of death until the interment of an associate justice of the Supreme Court, a secretary of an executive or military department, a former vice president or the governor of a state.
—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for interment
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“Interment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interment. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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interment
noun
in·ter·ment
in-ˈtər-mənt 
: burial
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