entombed
Example Sentences
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"In essence, if someone was just scratching on a bit of concrete, we'd be able to pick that up," he says, "even if they are entombed in the building".
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
The hospital simply put identifying stickers on the bicycles and entombed them far from public view.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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
And suddenly I found myself thinking, Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed, to give life or to receive it?
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
