How to Use mummy in a Sentence

mummy

noun

• Tune in to this week’s episode to learn more about this yummy mummy!
  — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 17 June 2026
• Scientists know that there’s more than one way to make a mummy.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• What kind of music do mummies listen to?
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
• That’s a museum for me and mummies?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
• But for eight long years, the galleries have been as still as the ancient mummies wrapped up in linen.
  — Anthony Sattin, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2019
• Jeff spent weeks in a hospital bound like a mummy with bandages.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• But the head coach wore a mask up to his eyes, looking like a Halloween mummy.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
• These aren’t mummies in the traditional sense of the word.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
• Ancient Egyptians used to wear linen as a sign of high class and even wrapped mummies in it.
  — Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2023
• This wild satire has it all, including mummies and werewolves.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Anubis was also known as the guardian of the dead, so mummies were buried with amulets adorned with a jackal.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• The downside to mummy’s is that a lot of folks feel too restricted inside one.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 8 Apr. 2020
• Her tomb has not been identified, although her mummy and that of her husband have.
  — National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020
• But others that are present in the mummy have become far rarer as our diets have evolved.
  — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 June 2026
• Like a beef mummy, without the gauze wrap or the murderous thirst for revenge.
  — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• This could also go part way to explaining why the mummy as encased in a tomb with the priest's name.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
• The display style of these mummies has long drawn social criticism.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• The mummy thus opens up new pathways into the study of perinatal health in the ancient world.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2021
• Images of scarabs were believed to bring good fortune, in this world and the next, if sewn in to the wrappings of your mummy.
  — National Geographic, 13 Mar. 2019
• This mummy, the scientists hope, will shed new light on pregnancy in the ancient world.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2021
• At one point, a fire broke out, burning the mummies and other ancient artifacts.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
• Look for mummies at Halloween supply stores, or make your own with old mannequins and bandage wraps.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
• Designs include a witch, a pumpkin, a vampire, a mummy and a smiling ghosts, all of which are more fun than scary.
  — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 25 Sep. 2020
• Most Peruvian mummies come bundled in cloth, with their legs folded up to their chests and their arms around their knees.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2018
• Much of the evidence for this assertion comes from CT scans of his mummy.
  — Bob Brier, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
• But elsewhere on and in the mummy, the team also found some microbes that weren’t actually dead.
  — ArsTechnica, 6 June 2026
• Non-carving pumpkin ideas Turn your pumpkin into a mummy!
  — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
• Egypt’s mummies are the most well-known, but the process can also happen naturally in places like glacier ice, desert sands and bog sludge.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
• Wrap a thick white ribbon (or gauze) around the bottles instead of ribbon and slap on a pair of googly eyes to turn them into mummies.
  — NBC News, 22 Oct. 2019
• The team analyzed ice from the surface of Ötzi’s body, as well as meltwater inside the mummy.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026