How to Use disinter in a Sentence

disinter

verb

• The body was disinterred for further study.
• Some reports claimed remains housed there had been disinterred.
  — Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
• Before Orion could disinter his fawn, though, he’d been run off by a bear.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
• If the money did not come, the cemetery disinterred the remains.
  — The Economist, 28 May 2020
• Sierra has pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder and disinterring a corpse.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• The sensors would have to be disinterred from streets and replaced with new ones that support encrypted updates.
  — Kim Zetter, WIRED, 30 Apr. 2014
• An unknown number of graves were disinterred, while other graves lay forgotten.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• The urn has been disinterred, and the GBI will try to determine whose remains were in it.
  — Steve Burns, ajc, 21 June 2018
• The army is already in the process of disinterring their remains and returning them to their communities.
  — Miyo McGinn, Outside Online, 9 Dec. 2024
• When the families of the deceased couldn’t continue paying burial fees, the bodies were set to be disinterred.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• Houston wanted to have Jennie disinterred and reburied at the family plot.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2024
• By that point, locals had already disinterred the bones and deposited them into an ossuary alongside other sets of remains.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 Oct. 2019
• The bodies were disinterred, and the identification process started anew.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• Eventually, the efforts worked and the DoD agreed to disinter the 27.
  — National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2016
• New evidence disinterred in March may raise the fatality count above 80.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2019
• The remains of two people have been disinterred and will be studied for clues as to how the population of Turu-Aygyr lived at the time.
  — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
• Pena was charged separately for allegedly disinterring a body and will be back in court to face that count at a later date, the DA said.
  — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 19 May 2026
• The coffin had been donated by Till’s mother after the 14-year-old lynching victim was disinterred and reburied.
  — National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2019
• The presence of the remains of her body calls into question the propriety of presenting disinterred remains as art in ways the disembodied portraits don't.
  — Dmitry Samarov, Chicago Reader, 23 Jan. 2018
• In June, Jeff Thiel’s remains were disinterred from a Waupaca County cemetery.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 21 Nov. 2025
• The remains were disinterred and transferred to a laboratory, where 35 sets of remains were identified.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2024
• Biggs received a contract to disinter and rebury the Union dead following the battle of Gettysburg.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• After more than a decade of work, the agency disinterred the rest of the unidentified caskets and transferred them to a laboratory for further forensic analysis.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024
• Even as Lemonade disinters the pain wrought by Jay-Z’s infidelity, Beyoncé yokes her fate to his.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 18 June 2018
• The remains were disinterred in October 2011.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
• Cry of the undead As illustrated by the story of Arnold Paole, popular belief held that to kill a vampire, the corpse had to be disinterred and pierced with a stake.
  — Oscar Urbiola, National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
• Salem said 15 to 20 of them have been disinterred — some after troops destroyed cemeteries and others moved by relatives out of fear Israeli forces would destroy their graves.
  — Julia Frankel and Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
• In early 2019, the DPAA received a request from a family to disinter the one of the eight sets of remains.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 July 2024
• When Beethoven’s body was disinterred for reburial 36 years later, the official report noted that the pieces of the skull did not fit together because numerous splinters had been lost.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• Meikle said the sheriff identified the body as that of Dickens the day after Frankie Kerrigan surfaced, before disinterring the body.
  — Gale Holland, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018