Burying has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The dog was busy burying his bone in the garden. | |
| 2. | She's burying her money in the sand. | |
| 3. | She is burying her head in the sand. | |
| 4. | Why are you burying these books? | |
| 5. | An explosion tore through a block of flats burying a number of people under rubble. | |
| 6. | They finished burying the dead. | |
| 7. | And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying: I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead. | |
| 8. | The children of Heth answered, saying: My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre. | |
| 9. | Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth: And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor. That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a burying place. | |
| 10. | And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called his son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and truth, not to bury me in Egypt. But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt take me away out of this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors. |