How to Use inter in a Sentence

inter

verb
  • Many have been interred here since the 1800s.
    Joe Holden, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • There are also the remains of ten monarchs interred in the chapel.
    Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 31 Jan. 2018
  • These men, aged 17 to 30, had been interred with great care, in their own graves.
    Fox News, 1 July 2018
  • Les Invalides, where Napoleon is interred, will host archery.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • Bodies will be interred both in the floor and on multiple levels along the walls.
    Sam Sokol, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • His heart was cut from his chest and sent home, where it was interred at the chapel at Pere Lachaise cemetery.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 July 2019
  • The court did find descendants of those interred on the site may be able to make claims against future owners of the site.
    Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • Bruner is expected to be the last Arizona crew member to be interred on the ship.
    Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • She was later interred at Fairview Cemetery.
    Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The presence of nails indicates the dead were interred in wooden coffins that have since decayed.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Their bodies were interred in a mass grave somewhere in the East Bottoms.
    Patrick C. Salland, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The Army asked where the family wanted his remains to be interred.
    David Owens, courant.com, 7 July 2018
  • Among the hundreds of soldiers who are interred at the cemetery are three of Mykola’s friends.
    Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Some speculate that Shaffer’s body is still in the bar, perhaps interred in the walls.
    Jeremy Lybarger, Longreads, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The new regime didn't take kindly to inter-species romance, and the lovers were forced to flee separately.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2019
  • He was interred in a Roman-style burial, in a grave lined and covered with rocks and his feet pointing north.
    Kristin Romey, National Geographic, 15 May 2019
  • The next stage is ceremonies in the state where the former president has chosen to be interred.
    Caroline Linton, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The hand positions of those interred also differed.
    Ahmed Shawkat, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • His remains are set to be interred in Georgia, in a grave next to his brother Tommy.
    Vinny Vella, Courant Community, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Among his final requests was to be interred close to the grave of his old friend, Major Nicholson.
    Clay Risen, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • His remains will be interred in the New Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon.
    courant.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • He was interred in an area of the cemetery typically used for adults and adolescents buried without grave goods.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Dec. 2025
  • One of these contained the remains of two young men interred with another 2,200 stone and shell beads.
    National Geographic, 1 July 2017
  • Ed was interred in a Packard from the 1940s, embalmed in the passenger seat.
    Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Most of the soldiers interred in these graves died in November 1944.
    Blane Bachelor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2025
  • Bianchi had been interred anonymously in a military cemetery in Hawaii.
    Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 1 May 2026
  • Joseph Langdell's ashes were interred on the Arizona in 2015.
    Audrey McAvoy, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Joseph Langdell’s ashes were interred on the Arizona in 2015.
    NBC News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • She was cremated and interred at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, and her ashes were stolen.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Those interred came from a nearby reform facility.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'inter.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: