entombed

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Entombed in rock, it took years to prepare and it wasn't immediately obvious that there was prey inside.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

Entombed regrets have a tendency to blow up in one’s face, which does happen very literally, the way everything here is literal.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2021

Entombed beneath the Black Hills by thousands of feet of solid rock, these experiments are shielded from much of the background radiation that bathes the planet’s surface.

From Scientific American • Jul. 11, 2017

Entombed in my turquoise and lilac bedroom as a teenager growing up in Australia, I listened over and over to Suffer Little Children by the Smiths, featuring Morrissey’s downbeat crooning about the moors:

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2017

Too late! the waves now gird him round; the gallant rider reels; Entombed beneath the debris his warning voice is stilled, But he, I trust, ran not in vain; his mission is fulfilled.

From Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems by Chant, Joseph Horatio