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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

Concrete pours planned for October will entomb their handiwork.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

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

So runs the strange tale, how the lovers twain One sword, one sepulchre, one memory, Slays, and entombs, and brings to life again.

From The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 22 by John Ormsby

Spontaneous applause erupted — and even some tears were shed — at the battered parking structure where Gil had been entombed since the two temblors struck within seconds of each other on June 24.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 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

Many of Tehran’s nuclear assets are entombed inside bombed facilities or at less-affected sites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

Adjacent to the entombed Griffin Warrior’s wrist was a carved and gold-tipped agate, almond-shaped and just 1.3 inches in length, here making its public debut outside Europe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

“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

But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight, Into a western couch of thunder-cloud; And thou, a ghost, amid the entombing trees 50 Didst glide away.

From Selections from Poe by J. Montgomery Gambrill