Thesaurus results for SARCOPHAGUS

sarcophagus

noun

sär-ˈkä-fə-gəs

as in casket

a boxlike container for holding a dead body the crypt under the abbey church contains the sarcophagus of the monastery's founding abbot

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Recent Examples of sarcophagus Cronin takes the legend of the mummy out of its sarcophagus by removing it from Egypt and throwing it into a domestic American home. —

Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026 Eight years later, she is found alive, wrapped up inside a sarcophagus. —

Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026 Set in both Egypt and Albuquerque, New Mexico, Cronin’s wonderfully inventive script drags one of cinema’s oldest tropes out of its sarcophagus and into a modern American home. —

Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 14 Apr. 2026 There, layers of light green cloth cover a stone sarcophagus. —

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This includes the importance of gestures such as going to retrieve from the family casket a pin that reproduces the British and American flags together, as well as those that actually fly on the streets of Washington.

— Giorgia Olivieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Apr. 2026
The pattern holds across every region of the country, where actual casket burial rates closely match stated first-choice rates, while cremation rates far exceed them.

— Tanya D. Marsh, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2026