How to Use bury in a Sentence

bury

verb
  • The dog buried her bone.
  • The disclaimer was buried in the fine print.
  • He buried the money in the backyard.
  • She buried her face in her hands.
  • He has learned to bury his feelings.
  • Their ancestors are buried in the local cemetery.
  • The newspaper covered the story, but it was buried in the back of section C.
  • He was buried with full military honors.
  • The area around the door frames can show names of the people buried there.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN, 16 May 2023
  • Braid has little to no stretch in the line, and this helps bury the hook into the mouth of the fish.
    Mark Modoski, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Samples were collected and the whale was buried on the beach.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 3 June 2023
  • That set her on a mission to give voice to those whose own voices were buried both in the past and the present.
    Steve Hochman, SPIN, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Kravitz said it should have been considered for the top-spot on the site, but it was buried.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 21 July 2023
  • The Nelsons buried Stefano in a shallow grave the next day, but that was the least of their concerns.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Though to be clear, anger is distinctly buried in there, too.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Trey, meanwhile, sees a chance for revenge against the men who buried her beloved brother in a peat bog.
    Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The Kutz family was buried together in a tight row of graves.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
  • This idea that there could be something buried and hidden down there: aliens, old ships, all of this.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The head might also have wound up buried there for some other reason.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • All three tombs were joint burials, so the earrings likely belonged to one of the women buried at the site.
    Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
  • How such a large chunk of gold ended up buried under the soil in this part of England is unclear.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Now they are buried somewhere under the rubble of their hotel on the edge of what remains of the village.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
  • To keep out all but the most determined coyotes, install a 6–7-foot fence, buried about a foot deep.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2024
  • One of the items partially buried was a late-model Cadillac.
    Erielle Davidson, National Review, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Though their heads and torsos were mostly buried, their four legs remained sticking out of the dirt.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Carbon might not stand a better chance of staying buried.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 July 2023
  • An image of aloofness has clung to him, despite attempts to bury it.
    Roger Cohen and Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The tribal name is a testament to the Yaquis’ will to keep their people and heritage from being buried.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Since 1869, more than a million people, many unknown, have been buried there.
    The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Nearly half of the trash is buried at the landfill, and the rest is hauled to larger landfills in Pennsylvania.
    Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2023

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