a number of Boston's historic notables are entombed in the Old Granary Burying Ground
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The hospital simply put identifying stickers on the bicycles and entombed them far from public view.—Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026 And the researchers say these practices, such as kin being entombed together, likely came from Roman culture.—Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 29 Apr. 2026 Sunny had been missing for hours when someone realized he was entombed under a driveway.—Mark Price
april 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Apr. 2026 While Soviet authorities entombed that plant in concrete, Tokyo decided on a very different approach — the Fukushima Dai-ichi facility would be entirely dismantled.—Yusuke Maekawa, Bloomberg, 8 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for entomb
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Middle English entoumben, from Middle French entomber, from en- + tombe tomb