How to Use mummify in a Sentence

mummify

verb

• Certain aspects of the process used to mummify her stood out.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
• 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
• On Sunday night, Brady stood at a lectern with his right arm mummified.
  — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• 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
• The outside of the body appears intact, if shrunken and mummified.
  — John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• 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
• The skin near the back was also mummified and embedded with five vertebrae pieces.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2018
• Arakawa’s face was bloated and her hands and feet appeared mummified, a sheriff’s deputy wrote in an affidavit.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
• All three of the bodies were partially mummified, Barnes told the Sun.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Morales said the bodies were essentially mummified, cooked by the extreme heat.
  — Sonia Perez D., chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
• 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
• His body was taken to Cairo, mummified and held for years before returning to Iran.
  — Jon Gambrell, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• His body was taken to Cairo, mummified and remained there for years before being brought to Iran.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
• His body was taken to Cairo, mummified and remained there for years before being brought to Iran.
  — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
• In a remote area of Indonesia, villagers mummify, dress, feed and even sleep beside their dead.
  — Libby Copeland, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• The remains were on a hillside, partially mummified, the clothes removed.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2016
• 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
• Around me are spindly, spiky pomegranate trees, the last of their fruit mummifying on their branches, and almond trees blowsy with pale-pink flowers.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2016
• Sealed in their cocoons, the bees mummified, preserving their body shape and distinctive features.
  — Sarah Derouin, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
• Modern-day people in Papua New Guinea still mummify the deceased.
  — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
• For more than 3,000 years, the Chinchorro mummified their dead.
  — Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Blindfolded teams guess scents and flavors, the grandkids are mummified in toilet paper fashions, and toys race across plank oak floors.
  — R. Daniel Foster, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Experts say the bodies likely were mummified because of the climate in the area, The Sun added.
  — Fox News, 2 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Bergstrom frequently sees mummified seals in the valleys, as the cold, dry atmosphere preserves their bodies.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
• Among these findings were the remains of at least 20 puppies and dogs, which were partially preserved and mummified.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 May 2026
• 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
• Joanna Rogers' mummified remains were found, like Baldwin's, inside a suitcase at the city garbage dump.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2018
• Found in a wooden coffin, the elderly woman dressed in a black wig and gold and silver scarab rings had been mummified with nothing short of a look of horror on her face.
  — New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2024
• And each year the art stars of the past are ratified and mummified in retrospectives and monographs at museums and art magazines.
  — Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2023