entomb

Example Sentences

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I entombed all of the memories we'd amassed since childhood in that album and stuffed it away in a closet shoebox.

From Salon

Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, above the sunken hull where the remains of more than 900 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines who were killed in the attack are still entombed.

From New York Times

There the ancient inhabitants of a balmy estuary that covered the area more than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous period, are entombed in ironstone nodules.

From Scientific American

Today the battleship still sits where it sank eight decades ago, with more than 900 dead entombed inside.

From Seattle Times

The rising sun, heating the entombed lava slopes, was casting a pyramid shadow over the landscape far below.

From New York Times