Meanings of remain unburied in English

Why should he be buried when that poor girl must remain unburied?

Chinese authorities warn of the possibility of epidemics in wake of Sichuan earthquake, as dead remain unburied.

Aye, I will do it, though I die in the doing and remain unburied, I swear by Set!

But they do say that it has grown from the folk Phorenice has slain, and whose bodies remain unburied.

Hundreds of men remain unburied.

Polyneices is to remain unburied.

There are hundreds of ancestral remains in the Northern Marianas that remain unburied after they were exhumed from different locations on the islands.

No cans, pails, or anything capable of holding water, shall be thrown out or allowed to remain unburied on or about any premises.

A man who died more than 10 days ago remains unburied because of an investigation into his death.

So long as the Roman's head remained unburied, his soul was trapped in the formless land between death and life.

Alexander the Great after death remained unburied for thirty days, because no one would do the honor of shoveling him under.

The bodies which remained unburied were probably left either from hurry or negligence, and exhibited a spectacle too shocking for humanity.

The hundreds of millions of dead remained unburied and the germs multiplied themselves, and, toward the last, millions died daily of starvation.

Sometimes they were just parked someplace and left-theDuke of Wellington remained unburied for two months-untilthe sure signs of decomposition began to show.

"Let my dead remain unburied, but I will not go back from the service of the Lord."

The Maories believe that for three days after death the soul inhabits the body, and therefore, for three times twenty-four hours, the corpse remains unburied.