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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

After fasting, monks would entomb themselves in a stone chamber underground or in a coffin, chanting prayers until they passed on.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 19, 2024

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

The tension of not knowing whether the slow-moving molten rock would entomb their homes, farmland and businesses is taking a toll on local people, Rodríguez said.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

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

The oily shale that entombs those fossils was laid down as lake sediments about 47 million years ago, says Walter Joyce, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 20, 2012

It is, then, for the land that you care, the mere face of the country, because it entombs myriad ancestors, because it is familiar in its every aspect, because it overflows with abundant beauty.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

Nearby infrastructure is shattered and entombed beneath the deposits.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

“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

Full of sorrow and restraint, the opening verses are entombed by muffled synths before Liene explodes into an operatic wail of catharsis in the dying moments.

From BBC ● May 8, 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

If the storm entombed them, well and good.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“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

The uprooted trees lay on one side of the mountain trail, perhaps a mile from the mouth of the cave which had been covered over, entombing the Beecher party.

From Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold by Victor [pseud.] Appleton