mummy

Example Sentences

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Though concentrated, it’s situated among newly refreshed spaces containing lavishly ornamented mummy coffins, carved grave stelae, canopic jars, tomb wall reliefs and the preserved body of a woman named Gautseshenu.

From The Wall Street Journal

“And people are using it or they would have admitted it. All right. We’ll set a guard around the house till they’ve turned to mummies.”

From Literature

There was certainly reason—mummies were burned for fuel by early grave robbers.

From The Wall Street Journal

As warm as July, too warm to be bound up like a mummy under my shirt.

From Literature

A study led by chemists at the University of Bristol found that the smell associated with mummies is not simply the result of aging or decay.

From Science Daily