bury
verb (used with object)
to put in the ground and cover with earth.
had buried
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past perfectof bury.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The “with nature” comment seems to suggest the abductors had buried the grandmother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
This was one of those words we thought we had buried in the last century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
John Minney estimated that the number of family and friends he had buried at St Conval's was in double figures.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
By 2015, it appeared as though the two had buried the hatchet, and in an ironic twist, she presented her “friend” West with the Video Vanguard Award at the VMAs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024
When I asked her why she was wasting her candies, she said she was burying them like the box her Mama and PapS had buried in their yard that was bad to touch.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
