Example sentences for: burying

How can you use “burying” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The last Freedom Trail stop in the North End is Copp’s Hill Burying Ground, which has a fine view across the river to Charlestown.

  • And the Chinese are burying Tibet with immigration.

  • Terrified that "others might find out and that he might be treated as a freak," he became a recluse, burying himself in music.

  • The adjacent Granary Burying Ground contains the graves of many heroes: John Hancock, Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, James Otis, the victims of the Boston Massacre, Robert Treat Paine (the prosecutor at the Boston Massacre trial), and Peter Faneuil.

  • A cardinal sin of news reporting is downplaying the real news of a story--this is known as "burying the lead" and once upon a time it was considered an even bigger disaster for a journalist than having a kid not get into Sidwell Friends.


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