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How to use the word Burying in a Sentence?

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Our message to candidates is define yourself or other candidates will define it for you and you’re not going to like their version of you, the ostrich strategy of burying your head in the sand is not going to work.

Katie Daniel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For almost her whole life, Annie (Moore) was either pregnant with or giving birth to or burying a child.

Paul Linehan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The atmosphere was that mix of excitement from those who were leaving and the sadness of those who were remaining, with the knowledge that this was the last time that they would see these people, for almost her whole life, Annie (Moore) was either pregnant with or giving birth to or burying a child.

Paul Linehan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The language in that letter is damning and that letter has a reference to bringing a shovel and burying a body.

Patrick Reilly

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was just bizarre, he was very, very matter-of-fact. He could have been talking about burying a dead hamster.

Chris Summers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I never imagined that I would be standing here, the roles should completely be reversed. My son should be burying me.

Daunte Wright

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As a mother, I am tired of the funerals. I am tired of burying our children.

Lori Lightfoot

Found on CNN
3 years ago

One of the best ways to deal with the depressing and demoralizing impact of the constant barrage of bad news is distraction. We are not burying our head in the sand when we engage in activities that take us away from an otherwise distressing situation.

Tal Ben-Shahar

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Obviously we can't be burying people in the dark.

Dan Wright

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A decent burial does not involve prison inmates burying your loved one.

Melinda Hunt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm not burying my head in the sand. ... The government I represent will always take care of ensuring the safety of women.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The government is prohibiting a family from burying where they deem convenient.

Luis Felipe Utrera

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I believe many men, under similar circumstances, have shared my preference for silence while encouraging women to assert their reproductive rights, while eschewing opinion, I believe burying the facts is neither moral nor noble in the face of heated emotions and recent efforts to make abortion again illegal. I think it important to remind Norman Pearlstine and to tell others what life was like before Roe vs. Wade.

Norman Pearlstine

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Germans are very good in hiding their anti-Semitism from themselves, they are world champions in building memorials, but the danger is that they are burying their anti-Semitism under those monuments until they think that it doesn’t exist anymore.

Wenzel Michalski

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What a perfect way to leave this world, not one of them going through mourning and burying each other, because I know that my dad couldn’t do it again.

Regina Rodriguez

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

. Shortly before the couple were buried, the gunman’s first wife spoke publicly for the first time since the massacre. Tessa Brennaman said Tessa Brennaman lived in constant fear of Kelley, a former airman, and said he had once placed a handgun against Tessa Brennaman head and threatened to kill Tessa Brennaman. He just had a lot of demons or hatred inside of him, Brennaman, 25, told CBS’s Inside Edition. In 2012, while stationed at an Air Force base in New Mexico, Kelley received a court-martial conviction for physically abusing Brennaman and fracturing his infant stepson’s skull. At the Grace Bible Church in La Vernia where the Richard Rodriguez funeral service was held, about 500 people gathered to hear tributes to the couple, who were married in 2006. Rodriguez’s first wife died 15 years ago. Richard Rodriguez only child, daughter Regina Rodriguez, 33, said it was a small comfort that Regina Rodriguez father and Therese died together, deeply in love and inside their place of worship. What a perfect way to leave this world, not one of them going through mourning and burying each other, because I know that my dad could n’t do it again.

Regina Rodriguez

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Where there is a commitment to quiet, modest funerals, we will continue to return (bodies). Where there is not, we will not return them, even if that means us burying them here.

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My feeling is this is a tomb, originally made for a queen, which was adapted for the burial of a queen who had become a pharaoh, the pharaoh (dressed as a mummy) in question looks to be Nefertiti and the person burying Nefertiti appears to be Tutankhamun.

Another British archaeologist

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The point is, what exactly is in this agreement? because this administration unfortunately has a track record of burying things in fine print ... that turn out to be very different from their selling points.

Carly Fiorina

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The images of dead soldiers, a farmer burying a dead horse in the snow and German prisoners corralled with their hands raised attest to the bleakness of this deadly campaign.

Cynthia Young

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This morning my family and I learned that my Dad's abusive wife Jean Thompson Kasem and their daughter Liberty conned a cemetery in Norway into burying my Dad there, even with ALL the letters ... from my father's friends and family stating that he wanted to be buried in the UNITED STATES, the country in which he was born and raised, his wishes were, once again, ignored by his unfaithful wife.

Kerri Kasem

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I have buried bodies of the deceased of different ages, sizes, and weights, those small bodies I've been burying since yesterday felt much heavier than any of the big ones I've buried before.

Taj Muhammad

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?

Howard Zinn

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

Richard Livingstone

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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