Examples of “burke” in a Sentence

verb To kill someone by suffocation, especially in order to sell the body for dissection.

• The infamous pair would burke their victims and sell the corpses to anatomists.

verb To suppress or hush something up quietly.

• The council tried to burke the report before anyone could read it.
• Officials hoped to burke the complaint by simply never replying.
• Socrates and Plato burked the issue. — Robert Graves, Poems (1953)
• The scandal was quickly burked by those in charge.