entombment

Example Sentences

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Well, wouldn’t you go snorkeling around a solemn mass entombment if you got the chance, too?

From Slate • May 16, 2026

Massive blast doors that looked like they belonged on the largest bank vault in the universe were supposed to keep us safe, though in a nuclear war they might only have ensured our entombment.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

KRAKOW, Poland — On a slab in the middle of the stage is the body of an elderly man, being prepared for entombment.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

“She had a double affection for the two countries,” Ms. Baker’s daughter, Marianne Bouillon-Baker, said at an American reception on the eve of the entombment.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021

And Aaron Hill wrote an allegorical poem to show Pope the error of The Dunciad and to suggest means of escape from entombment "in his own PROFUND."

From An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad by Harte, Walter