INTERMENT in a Sentence

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19 example sentences for INTERMENT, such as:

1. All species will breed inter se.
2. Let him be interred in holy ground.
3. They interred their dear comrade in the arms.
4. The permission for interment must be exhibited.
5. They are going to inter the body tomorrow at Broadlawn Cemetery.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTERMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
interment
 n.  act or ritual of interring or burying; act of burying dead body; burial
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble voices were heard calling from the well.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
2  That the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
3  The permission for interment must be exhibited.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
4  After the interment he returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
5  Gargery had departed this life on Monday last at twenty minutes past six in the evening, and that my attendance was requested at the interment on Monday next at three o'clock in the afternoon.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
6  The same grave expression of grief, the same rigid silence, and the same deference to the principal mourner, were observed around the place of interment as have been already described.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
7  Then when he moved the light to the other parts of the picture he found an interment of Christ shown in the usual way, it was also a comparatively new painting.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
8  It's a word that's made up out'n the Greek orgo, outside, open, abroad; and the Hebrew jeesum, to plant, cover up; hence inter.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV.
9  Ah driv dem inter de swamp de day de Yankees come, but de Lawd knows how we gwine git dem.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  While they were journeying, the Holy Brotherhood entered the house; my lord the Inquisitor was interred in a handsome church, and Issachar's body was thrown upon a dunghill.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  That the nun who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of the chapel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
12  Let him be interred in holy ground.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 42 THE ANJOU WINE
13  In the beautiful cathedral the greater number of the kings and queens of Denmark are interred.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
14  Yes, yes, make your mind easy, he shall be decently interred in the newest sack we can find.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
15  He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
Example Sentence:
1  They are going to inter the body tomorrow at Broadlawn Cemetery.
2  All species will breed inter se.
3  They interred their dear comrade in the arms.