mummies

plural of mummy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummies
Noun
  • Gein only admitted to the killing of two women, Worden and Mary Hogan, and stealing corpses from graves.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In the world of Monster, a person who takes lives and desecrates corpses might someday be capable of redemption.
    Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Significance The relics of Saint Therese traveled from France to be in the United States.
    Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • A number of startups are actively pursuing ways to extract the most dangerous orbital objects—defunct rocket stages, dead satellites, space collision fragment clouds, and space-race relics.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, the evidence suggested that the bodies were dried and preserved, buried in a desiccated state, rather than as fresh cadavers.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Do not even think of bringing home any carcasses.
    Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Deer carcasses and parts should go directly to a landfill or be disposed of through your regular bagged trash pickup.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • An alligator's diet can include chicken liver, rats and animal parts, including bones and cartilage.
    Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Best Interactive Plush Baby’s first plush pal is always ready to play—no bones about it!
    Pamela Brill, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Mummies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummies. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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