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How to use burying in a sentence

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The unlined portion of the tunnel had caved in under the debris of a mudslide on Monday night, burying many workers alive and injuring others.
They couldn't go rambling about or fishing or playing cricket on the green or burying themselves in books.
A sob ripped through the young lord as he collapsed against her, burying his face in her lap, his arms wrapped around her slender waist.
I've been informed that the family appreciates the condolences of friends and are trying to find ways of burying him back in Bulgaria.
It is time the people on this estate stood up to these youths instead of burying our heads in the sand.
It is important to uproot and desiccate these weeds thoroughly, because burying them in the loose dry soil is not very effective.
Thompson, who denies murder, then allegedly dismembered the body before burying the remains in the Lake District.
If they work as a team burying their individual predilections and preferences there is no reason why the team cannot get back its rhythm.
So adept was I at burying my real feelings and compartmentalizing myself that I eventually had myself convinced I enjoyed it.
Stone Age communities sometimes exposed their dead instead of burying them and ravens picked the bones clean.
Meehan removed any doubt seven minutes later when he took a pass from Mullahy and raced through before burying a screamer in the bottom corner.
Woke up this morning and there was snow drifting a meter high out on the deck and in the garden, burying my optimistic seeds.
We screwed short crosspieces near the bottom of each leg, burying them in the gravel to resist tipping.
In one swift and graceful movement, she threw her arms around him, burying herself in the fabric of his clothing.
With an evil grin, he sprawled out on the couch, burying his face in a red throw pillow.
I bore off under full sail and never came close to burying the boat's rail.
When it surfaced three days later, a Mississippi jury tried to do its part by burying his story under a tissue of lies and misrepresentations.
Moreover, a rodent capture still leaves behind the messy job of killing the creature and burying the evidence.
I flashed her a sarcastic toothy smile, to which she responded by burying her face in her bag.
The ASA was very careful to point out that there would be no get out by burying the screen size explanations in microprint.
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The guards were burying in the sand a heavy anchor to which the main rope of the breeches buoy would be fastened.
Most people have seen the Necrophorus or burying beetle working in fields or gardens.
The following account of the burying beetle is given by M. Gleditsch, a foreign naturalist.
I went up through the old Chippeway burying ground to their head, and sat down on a large stone to look.
A truce is then made for the purpose of burying the dead, and the Greeks fortify their camp.
Mrs. Kate complained, burying two plump forearms in a dishpan of sudsy hot water, and bringing up a handful of silver.
When the land is wanted for oats or corn, a jointer should be used on the plow to insure burying all the crop.
The sumptuary law for burying the dead in woollen, still occupies its place in their statute book.
Protect them from the air and frost, by laying in heaps in a dry place, covering them with MATS, or burying them in dry sand.
Even as the little party watched, the great shovel plunged down, straight down, burying its great teeth in the rooty ground.
He turned over, burying his face in his arm and there he lay, still and motionless.
She caught herself at the side of the bed, and then sank down, burying her face in her hands and bursting into frantic weeping.
The custom of the woolly-heads of burying their dead in the sea did not tend to discourage the sharks from making the adjacent waters a hangout.
He turned and laid his arms on the chimneypiece, burying his head on them.
Former Laker Jannero Pargo followed by burying an open 3-pointer that put the Hornets ahead 98-87 and the game out of reach.
Mr Pickering replaced the ring in his pocket, and, burying his head in his hands, groaned in bitterness of spirit.
At his own request he was interred in the burying ground at parramatta.
She said that this composer had made a complete revolution in music and was burying the old masters one by one.
It went over suddenly, burying its gunwale level with the sea and shipping a bucketful or so of water.
He had likewise had the misfortune of burying this beloved wife herself, about five years before the time in which this history chuses to set out.
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