How to Use interment in a Sentence
interment
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The body is washed and shrouded, and then taken for interment.
—USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020
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About 20% of the interment rights in the garden have been sold.
—Cindy Heflin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2019
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The flags will be lowered until sunset on the day of his interment.
—Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 27 Jan. 2020
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An interment flag was also flown over the State House this week.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
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Having a police escort made for a smoother ride to the interment.
—Benjy Egel, sacbee, 5 Apr. 2018
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The flags will be at half-staff until his interment, which will be announced at a later date.
—al, 25 June 2021
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In Catholic tradition, there isn’t a time frame for interment, just that the body be blessed.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
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The date of Klinner's interment has not yet been announced.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 17 Mar. 2026
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Socrates, a pet rat that died eight months ago, and three others now sit in her kitchen freezer, awaiting interment.
—Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2018
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The interment service was somber and quiet as twilight fell on the harbor.
—Shaun McKinnon, azcentral, 7 Dec. 2019
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In their home state, dates of observation extend through the day of interment.
—Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
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Though not often remembered these days, the interment was a massive event.
—Andrew Thomas, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2021
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They were ordered to remain lowered until the date of interment, which had yet to be announced.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
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The details of the interment sometimes enable us to guess at why a particular dog was buried.
—Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018
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Mike wheeled off, doubtless to avoid discussing the interment provision.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
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Flags shall remain lowered until sunset on the day of Yates's interment.
—The Enquirer, 25 July 2022
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The flags shall will remain lowered until sunset on the date of interment, which has not been determined.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
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The flags in Connecticut will remain at half staff until sunset on the date of interment.
—Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2022
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Flags are to remain at half-staff until the end of the day of his final interment and should return to full staff the following day.
—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2020
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For each of them, the interment of Dickens in the abbey might be considered the highlight of their careers.
—Leon Litvack, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
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Skuodas came from Lithuania and spent six childhood years in an interment camp in Germany.
—Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 27 Aug. 2019
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The lawsuit makes claims including breach of contract and a denial of a common law right of peaceful interment.
—Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 28 July 2022
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And it was provided only old paper maps and stacks of interment cards that listed names, dates and funeral homes.
—Robbyn Abbitt, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026
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Reynolds will order flags in Iowa be flown at half-staff on the day of Smith's interment, the statement from her office said.
—Hollie Silverman, CNN, 11 Apr. 2021
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But the encounter went no further, and the momentary pause in their war of words seemed unlikely to last beyond the interment.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2016
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But Nicholas' uncle missed the funeral and, instead, got a pickax and broke the stone's hold on the ground in time for the interment.
—cincinnati.com, 5 Dec. 2019
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On Friday, Hogan ordered state flags flown at half-staff until Mitchell’s interment.
—Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
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An interment will be held at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
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Flags will remain lowered until Ryan's interment.
—News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
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The interment will be held after the service at the Astor Park Cemetery.
—Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2018
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