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Low property prices in the country mean that for many, it is more affordable to entomb the ashes of relatives in an empty apartment than pay for funeral costs.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

Army Corps of Engineers decided to entomb the river in concrete to speed up water flow and prevent flooding, a project that was completed in the 1960s.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

Concrete pours planned for October will entomb their handiwork.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

Critically endangered American burying beetles entomb dead animals “in an underground crypt” so their offspring can feed on the carcass, Barclay says.

From National Geographic ● Nov. 22, 2017

Together with verbal coffins like model and level in which writers entomb their actors and actions, the English language provides them with a dangerous weapon called nominalization: making something into a noun.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

John Boorman’s bold, unnerving crime film “Point Blank” entombs its potent emotions within opaque performances, stripped-down dialogue and a cool-to-the-touch visual style.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

In a tragic extension of this structure, Moonlight entombs even Chiron’s adulthood in the confines of the closet.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2018

Joy’s mother, defeated by divorce, entombs herself in her bedroom, a man-fearing Miss Havisham addicted to soap operas.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 31, 2015

And just off a beach covered in sharp coral, a graveyard swallowed by the jungle entombs dozens of fishermen.

From Time ● Mar. 25, 2015

A long sigh breaks the blank silence: a moan steals helplessly from the great white mausoleum which entombs the man.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore

“The hope is, as the debris falls, you may be entombed but you won’t be injured,” Espy said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

We’ll have robot cars, robocops, terminators and a fully functioning Skynet that grades social status from Instagram likes—unless we’re all entombed Matrix-like in pods wearing Neurolinks to capture our psychic energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

In scenes that resemble a dystopian sci-fi movie, their widespread use has left swathes of frontline cities and fields entombed in webs of cable.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

Cars were entombed up to the tops of their wheels in sediment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025

As the brick walls grew taller, he knew he would be entombed inside the labyrinth.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

“Washington’s clearest nonproliferation wins against Iran in the war were stopping all uranium enrichment at declared facilities and entombing enriched uranium stockpiles,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

In March, Chinese authorities banned entombing cremated remains in empty apartments, a practice that took off as mourners tried to dodge rising funeral costs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

This actually happened multiple times—at least twice, says Rühli—over about 1000 years, entombing young men separated from one another by centuries in the salt they’d come to mine.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023

Two days later, they retrieved the bulldozer and filled the hole, entombing those stories in the old dining room forever.

From Salon ● May 29, 2023

He stepped through the door and closed it upon himself, entombing himself in blackness.

From Children of the Whirlwind by Leroy Scott