sepulcher

Example Sentences

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Fans mark Marilyn Monroe’s crypt with lipsticky kisses, and are kept an enforced distance from Michael Jackson’s marble sepulcher in Glendale, at Forest Lawn.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

Taylor Mali, 56, a poet from Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, held court in front of an aboveground sepulcher in the Egyptian Revival style.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2021

The three artists who broke into an abandoned South Seattle warehouse, turning it into a yawning sepulcher with eerie murals and sculpture partly based on monuments from a 19th-century Alaska Native cemetery.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2019

I therefore wished to make certain that no fleck of uncertainty besmirched the white sepulcher of her legitimacy.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2018

Sunday morning, in a Vermont town, my last day in New England, I shaved, dressed in a suit, polished my shoes, whited my sepulcher, and looked for a church to attend.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck