1
a
: an excavation in which a corpse is buried : grave
b
: a place of interment
2
: a house, chamber, or vault for the dead
3
: a building or structure resembling a tomb (as in appearance)
Examples of tomb in a Sentence
Noun
the tomb of Alexander the Great
explored the historic graveyard and saw tombs that dated back two centuries
Verb
Forest Lawn is where many of Tinseltown's immortals are tombed for all eternity.
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Plot details are being kept in the tomb, but it is understood that Reynor is playing a husband and father who runs afoul of supernaturally sinister forces.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Noun
Matthew’s account of the empty tomb, followed by ever more elaborate resurrection narratives, serves, Pagels suggests, both to address the practical difficulties of reclaiming the bodies of the executed and to counter skeptical claims that Jesus’ corpse had simply been stolen.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Plot details are being kept in the tomb, but it is understood that Reynor is playing a husband and father who runs afoul of supernaturally sinister forces.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
In order to become proper Chinese third graders—to go all the way from Heaven to tomb—Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred characters.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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“Tomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tomb. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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