entomb
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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
That procedural rules are not meant to entomb the truth, especially when the state seeks to end a life.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2025
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
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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
Cardinal, 286 entombs the relics of the three saints anew, 294.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
Nearby infrastructure is shattered and entombed beneath the deposits.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 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
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
“You can tell a lot about a street by the type of chairs and how they’re placed,” said Knapp, who walked 2.5 miles round trip for groceries and beer while his car was entombed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
If the storm entombed them, well and good.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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“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
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
Underwater avalanches buried anemones and other soft-bodied animals, entombing them to become fossils.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2023
Through a flowery field of cloth-of-gold we came, while the afternoon was young, into Cordoba—“Kartuba the Important,” lying like a grave entombing its dead glory, prone at the foot of tombstone mountains.
From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both