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

In 1998, 14 years after the Vietnam-era soldier’s entombment, he was exhumed and positively identified as Air Force Lt.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2021

Thanks to this latest exploit, evolutionary biologist Catherine La Farge arrived centuries later at Teardrop’s melting edge to find the tuft of the species Aulacomnium turgidum finally free from its icy entombment.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2019

Heavy floods caused the entombment of six men at the Buck Run Colliery, at Mount Pleasant, and a rescuing party worked up to their necks in water to get the men out alive.

From The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado by Marshall, Logan