entombed; entombing; entombs
Examples of entomb in a Sentence
a number of Boston's historic notables are entombed in the Old Granary Burying Ground
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Behind the closet door lay her old ambitions, entombed.
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Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
By the night of Sunday, January 13, 1952, snow would bury the train, entombing everyone inside for the next three days.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Now old, the two survivors are siloed in their grief — alive and lucky, sure, but still entombed.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Being entombed alive is an apt metaphor for a populace that had its civic freedoms squashed by the Assad dynasty for half a century.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
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Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
By the night of Sunday, January 13, 1952, snow would bury the train, entombing everyone inside for the next three days.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Now old, the two survivors are siloed in their grief — alive and lucky, sure, but still entombed.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Being entombed alive is an apt metaphor for a populace that had its civic freedoms squashed by the Assad dynasty for half a century.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for entomb
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“Entomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entomb. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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