How to Use tomb in a Sentence

tomb

noun

• Find the button that opens up the floor to see the baron’s tomb.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
• The duo bicker through scrapes on tuk-tuks and in tombs.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• The tomb where the bangle was found had a Ten Rings symbol on the ground.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
• These were filled with the tears of mourners and placed within the tomb.
  — Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• The reporter, who stood just outside the tomb, turned to the mother, who was dressed in black.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• Some say the booby traps of Qin Shi Huang’s tomb are real.
  — Jeremy Hillpot, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
• Hu’s team also found in the tomb a complete skeleton of a Malaysian tapir.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• The all-Egyptian dig has led to finds that some say rival those found in King Tut’s tomb.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
• Outside, the rock-hewn tomb was shaped like a cube and had several fake doors.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
• Fans, some teary-eyed, walked slowly by the tomb, pausing to pay their respects.
  — Time, 23 Jan. 2023
• Easter Sunday, on April 9, celebrates the day that Jesus rose from the tomb and marks the end of Lent.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 20 Feb. 2023
• Old Kingdom tombs for humans were discovered painted with the names of the dead and their wives.
  — Charlene Gubash, NBC News, 27 May 2023
• Auburn football is a tomb of the tedious in these days before Halloween.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 29 Oct. 2022
• The fluffy treat vanishing from the bread symbolizes the way Jesus vanished from the tomb.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
• The tomb holds the remains of a 40-year-old woman who lived during the second century C.E.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• The room, referred to as the cloister, is known to house the tombs of several noble families from the 1300s.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
• The movie follows a band of grave robbers in 1980s Italy who dig into tombs of the ancient Etruscans.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2023
• The Vergina site was first discovered in the 1970s, but debate has ensued about which royals were buried in each tomb.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 17 Feb. 2024
• There were the aboveground tombs known as chullpas; the cliffside sarcophagi for VIPs; the cave burials.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023
• Jones rests in an ornate marble tomb in the academy chapel.
  — Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• Before the crackdown, Uyghurs would gather for evening prayers in the mosque by the Afaq Khoja mausoleum, a holy tomb site for Muslims.
  — Cate Cadell, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
• One of the most spectacular of these was discovered in a tomb at the ancient site of Alacahöyük.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
• Other graves and artifacts around her tomb date to as late as 200 years after her death.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
• Based on their analysis, the researchers say these tombs were built in several stages over a long stretch of time.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• Some supporters of the sickly pharaoh theory point to the more than 130 walking sticks found in Tut’s tomb.
  — Bob Brier, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
• But tomb paintings and sculptures show that by 3,500 years ago, domestic cats lived in Egypt.
  — Jonathan Losos, Fortune Well, 5 Aug. 2023
• The remains of a rhino and a golden eagle were found in Empress Dowager Bo’s tomb.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• But aside from that, Shi Huang is known for his magnificent and legendary tomb.
  — Jeremy Hillpot, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
• There have been two attempts — the most recent in 2021 — to figure out whom the various tombs found at the El Caño site once belonged to, Mayo said.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
• The famous tomb’s inner chamber lights up on the winter solstice.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024