How to Use mummify in a Sentence

mummify

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• Why was the hand mummified, but not the rest of the body?
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 May 2018
• If the Ducks don’t play much better, Utah will mummify them.
  — John Canzano | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2019
• As early as 3,500 B.C.E, baboons were mummified and buried in the sand.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• On Sunday night, Brady stood at a lectern with his right arm mummified.
  — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• Instead, they are forced to stay stock still, while the bees mummify them in their own armoured shell.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2011
• The remains of cats have been found mummified in Egypt, in Viking graves and in various sites in the Mediterranean.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 19 June 2017
• Why did these monks in Japan choose to mummify themselves?
  — Travel, 25 Jan. 2024
• Experts say the bodies likely were mummified because of the climate in the area, The Sun added.
  — Fox News, 2 Oct. 2019
• Through the summer of 2002, John Hervert cut open the stomachs of rotting or mummified Sonoran pronghorn corpses in the desert.
  — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
• The remains of Khnummose (which may have been mummified) were found next to those of a woman who may have been his wife.
  — Owen Jarus Live Science Contributor, Fox News, 22 June 2017
• All three of the bodies were partially mummified, Barnes told the Sun.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• A few of them died within their dens and, through a rare process of being buried and then frozen, became mummified.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2019
• The outside of the body appears intact, if shrunken and mummified.
  — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• For more than 3,000 years, the Chinchorro mummified their dead.
  — Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• His body was taken to Cairo, mummified and remained there for years before being brought to Iran.
  — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
• Tamut was mummified with a large sheet-metal falcon ornament and a scarab over what was once her heart.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2020
• His body was taken to Cairo, mummified and held for years before returning to Iran.
  — Jon Gambrell, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Modern-day people in Papua New Guinea still mummify the deceased.
  — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
• The skin near the back was also mummified and embedded with five vertebrae pieces.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2018
• Reduce the incidence of dry rot, which mummifies stored potatoes, by keeping the fleshy roots at 55 to 60 degrees.
  — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2023
• Thousands of years after his death, a group of hikers found the victim’s mummified body emerging from a melting glacier.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 22 June 2018
• Nesyamun was mummified and entombed in a coffin inscribed with hieroglyphs, mainly texts from the Book of the Dead.
  — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
• Despite this, being a cat in ancient Egypt had its drawbacks: Millions of them were killed and mummified as sacrifices to the gods.
  — Jerry A. Coyne, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• In a remote area of Indonesia, villagers mummify, dress, feed and even sleep beside their dead.
  — Libby Copeland, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• Five beds made out of stone were discovered still standing inside the room, which would have been used to mummify the most sacred animals.
  — Charlene Gubash, NBC News, 27 May 2023
• Joanna Rogers' mummified remains were found, like Baldwin's, inside a suitcase at the city garbage dump.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2018
• The remains were on a hillside, partially mummified, the clothes removed.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2016
• In Mexico, mummified babies and children were once revered, and people would hold parties and games for them.
  — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
• Morales said the bodies were essentially mummified, cooked by the extreme heat.
  — Sonia Perez D., chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
• Each day of press previews, my black sneakers gained a layer of whitish dust, as though mummified by travel, and my eyes burned with a thousand sightings of the same pink tote bag on everybody’s arm.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024