entomb

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Recent Examples of entomb Today, the base lies entombed beneath at least 100 feet of ice. Isabel Van Brugen john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025 Following the service, Francis’ coffin was transported in the white popemobile over the River Tiber to be entombed in Rome’s Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025 Her skin, ears and even eyelashes were still intact after 50,000 years entombed in ice. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025 Or, as is still practiced by the Toraja of Indonesia, you might be preserved and entombed and brought out once every few years for family photographs. Cutter Wood, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for entomb
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  • Prince Friso was in a skiing accident in February 2012, getting buried under an avalanche, which led to brain damage and falling into a coma.
    Alex Apatoff, People.com, 15 July 2025
  • Some mourners openly wept, burying their faces in the Palestinian flags wrapped around the bodies.
    Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 14 July 2025
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  • Francis is the first pope in over a century not to be interred at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Like yesterday, and the days before, she is interred in the ground up to her waist, the afterthought of some unnamed apocalypse.
    Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025

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“Entomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entomb. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.

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