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as in grave
a final resting place for a dead person explored the historic graveyard and saw tombs that dated back two centuries

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Recent Examples of tomb
Noun
Many historians believe that Cleopatra was buried with her love, Mark Antony, in Alexandria — though her tomb has never been found there. Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025 Archaeologists have also uncovered a variety of treasures, including ancient tombs, which officials hope will boost cultural tourism. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
In order to become proper Chinese third graders—to go all the way from Heaven to tomb—Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred characters. Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for tomb
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tomb
Noun
  • Some old stories, like bodies in Wisconsin graves, really don’t need to be dug up.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • Gein only admitted to the killing of two women, Worden and Mary Hogan, and stealing corpses from graves.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • All three of the boot styles, alongside a product manifest and brand artifacts — all buried in a container designed to withstand the elements, much like its contents.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Later, the researchers send in ultrasonic waves when the same object is hidden in a complex environment, such as a steel ball buried in sand.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Maryland officials reinterred 65 of the state's earliest settlers in a powerful ceremony more than 300 years after the settlers' first burials.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Some wear kittles, white burial shrouds, to signify repentance, according to History.
    Krys'tal Griffin, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • However, the Oregon State Police Medical Examiner’s Office Human Identification Program learned the unidentified remains were likely interred at Mountain View Cemetery in Oregon City during a subsequent investigation.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Those interred came from a nearby reform facility.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over time, the library buildings expanded to encompass the cemetery, with the Crusade-era gravestones embedded in the flagstones.
    Ryan Byrnes, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Gein’s headstone was never returned to the cemetery.
    Aya Al-Hakim, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Enclave, Buick’s large, three-row crossover, has been redesigned for 2018, allowing the automaker to finally place its predecessor in a sepulchre and seal the entrance.
    Al Haas, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
  • The Garden Tomb, is believed by many to be the garden and sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus.
    Joe Yudin, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016

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“Tomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tomb. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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