entombed

past tense of entomb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of entombed The offcuts were entombed, encased in this diamond and preserved. David Moin, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2025 Photographs—memories entombed and then sent flying around the web—saturate our digital lives. Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entombed
Verb
  • Growing up during the Lebanese Civil War, famed architect and designer Aline Asmar d’Amman was often cozied in her room, her nose buried in a book to dampen the noise from the bombs outside.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Gomez and Morticia buried him, but kept his disembodied hand, which eventually became Thing (Victor Dorobantu).
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Dignitaries and longtime residents gathered under gray skies at the memorial to Katrina’s victims in a New Orleans cemetery where dozens who perished in the storm but were never identified or claimed are interred.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Armstrong is interred at Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025

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“Entombed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entombed. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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