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Meanings of inhumation in English
Synonyms
Examples for "burial"
Examples for "burial"
1
He said a mass burial was held on Sunday for health reasons.
2
Extended family members in Australia had taken responsibility for Mr Karami's burial.
3
US officials have given two reasons why a sea burial was chosen.
4
Mass burial for the victims of the attacks takes place in Christchurch.
5
The lamentable burial took place in the evening as the shadows fell.
1
We had the piles of coffins waiting for interment in the churchyard.
2
He remained in the city for four days:-untilthe interment was over.
3
No date has been set for the interment at National Heroes' Park.
4
Let's hope that he also presided over the interment of his ashes.
5
The Hibbert family decided against an interment at his birthplace in Clarendon.
1
Then the box was lifted and the work of sepulture went on.
2
The place of his sepulture, however, is still known, and pointed out.
3
His body was brought for sepulture to Tyringham church, near Newport Pagnel.
4
Euripides had his tomb in Africa, but his sepulture in Macedonia.
5
The body-snatcher was to be punished by death and the lack of sepulture.
1
Today, the men who survived those 68 days of entombment are heroes.
2
New Orleans has a high water table, making in-ground entombment impossible.
3
Residence at the Villa Beau-séjour had almost seemed an entombment of the living.
4
In the beginning years of Justin's cryonic entombment the Moon had decreased in stature.
5
From the moment of the bodies' entombment, all those that were in Halls days.
Usage of inhumation in English
1
With the above brief references to inhumation, let us leave the subject.
2
A living inhumation, where the body exists but as the spirit's sepulchre!
3
The inhumation was effected at night by the widow alone.
4
The triple inhumation at Dolní Vestonice, in today's Czech Republic, has elicited much comment.
5
At supper, after the inhumation, a mutual esteem had sprung up that rapidly ripened into love.
6
All attempts were limited, I repeat, to shallow soundings which informed the insect of the possibility of inhumation.
7
The hammock of raphia, almost equivalent to the natural network of couch-grass turf, scarcely disturbs the process of inhumation.
8
Not even these well-contrived securities sufficed to save from the uttermost agonies of living inhumation, a wretch to these agonies foredoomed!
9
And Tinemouth, famed in song for its "haughty prioress," and "Holy Isle," memorable for the inhumation of Constance de Beverly.
10
By INHUMATION in pits, graves, holes in the ground, mounds; cists, and caves.
11
"From the discovery of certain graves, however, it is known that they practiced inhumation."
12
"Looking at this photograph, I think there were two or three single inhumations, and maybe a common grave of five or six individuals," I said.
13
With the above brief references to inhumation, let us leave the subject.
14
A living inhumation, where the body exists but as the spirit's sepulchre!
15
The inhumation was effected at night by the widow alone.
16
The triple inhumation at Dolní Vestonice, in today's Czech Republic, has elicited much comment.
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Translations for inhumation
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Spanish
Inhumation through the time