lay (someone) to rest
idiom
: to bury (someone who has died)
—usually used as (be) laid to rest
She was laid to rest in the church's graveyard.
Examples of lay (someone) to rest in a Sentence
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The finale should finally lay to rest speculation that Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, who have a lucrative production deal with Netflix, were able to wield influence over the Emmy-winning series.
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Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
The following afternoon, in the southern town of Kounine, hundreds of mourners gathered in the martyrs’ section of the hilltop cemetery to lay to rest one of five Hezbollah fighters who had been killed the previous day.
—Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
Elvis Presley and several of his relatives lay to rest at Graceland.
—Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2023
The supervisor’s failure to follow directions meant that Lionell would at last receive small pieces of his sisters to lay to rest.
—Bronwen Dickey, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
The determination to lay to rest any whiff of appeasement of the indiscriminate aggression by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, which has already taken tens of thousands of lives, appeared paramount.
—New York Times, 16 June 2022
The decisions of voters like Mr. Mohler, discernible in surveys and voiced in interviews, did not necessarily lay to rest concerns about the ability of the election system to withstand the new pressures unleashed upon it by Mr. Trump.
—Blake Hounshell, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022
As Lod braced for more unrest on Wednesday, Arafat Ismail prepared to lay to rest his brother-in-law, Khalil Awaad, and 16-year-old niece, Nadine Awaad.
—Washington Post, 12 May 2021
The classic burial options have been upgraded by startups like Bio Urn (turn your ashes into a tree), Eternal Reefs (lay to rest on the ocean floor), Algordanza (from corpse to wearable diamonds), and Recompose (human composting).
—Arielle Pardes, Wired, 26 Oct. 2020
Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
The following afternoon, in the southern town of Kounine, hundreds of mourners gathered in the martyrs’ section of the hilltop cemetery to lay to rest one of five Hezbollah fighters who had been killed the previous day.
—Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
Elvis Presley and several of his relatives lay to rest at Graceland.
—Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2023
The supervisor’s failure to follow directions meant that Lionell would at last receive small pieces of his sisters to lay to rest.
—Bronwen Dickey, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
The determination to lay to rest any whiff of appeasement of the indiscriminate aggression by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, which has already taken tens of thousands of lives, appeared paramount.
—New York Times, 16 June 2022
The decisions of voters like Mr. Mohler, discernible in surveys and voiced in interviews, did not necessarily lay to rest concerns about the ability of the election system to withstand the new pressures unleashed upon it by Mr. Trump.
—Blake Hounshell, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022
As Lod braced for more unrest on Wednesday, Arafat Ismail prepared to lay to rest his brother-in-law, Khalil Awaad, and 16-year-old niece, Nadine Awaad.
—Washington Post, 12 May 2021
The classic burial options have been upgraded by startups like Bio Urn (turn your ashes into a tree), Eternal Reefs (lay to rest on the ocean floor), Algordanza (from corpse to wearable diamonds), and Recompose (human composting).
—Arielle Pardes, Wired, 26 Oct. 2020
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