Example Sentences

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By then, USC had buried them too deeply to recover.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

This was one of those words we thought we had buried in the last century.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Baza said she had buried the matter in her mind but wrote it all down in detail in her diary at the time.

From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2023

"All of these things I had buried… were starting to come to the surface and I realised… I just couldn't go back into a mainstream media space and do my job anymore," she said.

From BBC • May 23, 2023

Macon explained that he had buried his father himself, down by that part of the stream on Lincoln’s Heaven where they used to fish together, the place where he had caught that nine-pound trout.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison