crypt
Example Sentences
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Give me lighting that makes it possible for me to take a Zoom call without looking like I’ve been buried alive in a dark crypt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
When the structure is completed and the scaffolding dismantled, the tower will be blessed on June 10 to coincide with the centenary of the death of Gaudi, whose body lies in the basilica's crypt.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
If that stem cell develops epigenetic changes, every cell within the crypt inherits them.
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
The crypt was also damaged during another break in, also in 2019, and the church said at the time that several mummified remains - including the 400-year-old remains of a nun - were desecrated.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025
“That ain’t all. A little-girl skeleton was in the crypt, too, in a coffin with a glass top. Her bones were just so white and pretty—”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Vocabulary lists containing crypt
"The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Built To Last: Architectural Parlance
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"To Build a Fire," Vocabulary from the short story
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