How to Use entomb in a Sentence

entomb

verb

• About 900 sailors and Marines remain entombed in the ship.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• And over there, the golden dome of the Invalides where Napoleon is entombed!
  — John Leicester, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
• And over there, the golden dome of the Invalides where Napoleon is entombed !
  — John Leicester, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
• Many have no grave to call their own, entombed beneath the seas in the arms of their shipmates.
  — The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2024
• Du Bois, who died in 1963, is entombed in Accra, Ghana.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
• In the 1960s, a dam had been proposed that would have entombed much of it under a reservoir.
  — USA TODAY, 25 May 2018
• He was entombed in the snow for about 50 minutes, much longer than most avalanche survivors.
  — Author: Nicholas K. Geranios, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2020
• At the most, the whole vehicle will be crushed and entomb the four crewmembers within.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2018
• The steel looked like a piece of giant graph paper before it was entombed in the wet concrete.
  — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2023
• The shah's remains are entombed at Cairo's Al-Rifai Mosque.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 29 May 2023
• Soon enough, each of the four were entombed in their own phone activity.
  — Megan Angelo, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
• This may then have been protected from decay by the volcanic ash that entombed the body.
  — Colin Barras, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
• Thousands of people are still believed to be entombed in the rubble.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• The best course of action, Miner said, is to try and halt the thaw, and the wider climate crisis, and keep these hazards entombed in the permafrost for good.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
• Soon, water and mud piled on top of her until she was nearly entombed.
  — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2018
• You could get trapped in the sap of a tree, which will eventually entomb your body in gorgeous amber.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2012
• But in 2004, Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf Coast, sweeping up the seabed and sediment that kept the forest entombed.
  — Alicia Lee, CNN, 7 Apr. 2020
• When the trees died, their massive trunks became entombed in peat and sediment.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2020
• She was found entombed in an airtight casket that was 37 inches tall.
  — Joseph Serna, latimes.com, 10 May 2017
• Vesuvius is best-known for the eruption of A.D. 79, which entombed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
  — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
• The remains of at least 40 ships are still entombed beneath the Financial District.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
• The creature died when a small amount of tree resin fell on its head, eventually entombing its skull.
  — Fox News, 12 Mar. 2020
• His body lies entombed within the temple’s marble walls.
  — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
• Oblivion, like the loose earth scattered over their tortured bodies, would then entomb them.
  — Tom Holland, Time, 29 Oct. 2019
• Though most often seen in Southeast Asia, the fungus strain can be found in the U.S. growing on ants entombed on lower branches of beech trees.
  — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2023
• Because Parker was entombed in about 4 feet of snow, invisible to the dozens of people who by now had amassed on the face of the mountain to look for survivors.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Eventually, the objects sank, hidden and entombed, in more than six feet of oozing peat and silt.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• Fuzak, a skier who lives in the nearby Spokane, Washington, area, said he was entombed in the snow for about 50 minutes, much longer than most avalanche survivors.
  — Nicholas K. Geranios, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2020
• The obelisk was completed in 1901 and his remains were moved for a final time, entombed under the sandstone pillar.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2017
• The ash entombed the invertebrates living in the soft mud of the ocean floor, and within hours reacted with chemicals in seawater and hardened into a rock that preserved a perfect mold of the creatures.
  — science.org, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024