crypt
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Another is a pungent work of terror about a cursed man who inexplicably perishes in the village’s crypt, forcing the townspeople to investigate by disinterring the bodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
When the structure is completed and the scaffolding dismantled, the tower will be blessed on June 10 to coincide with the centenary of the death of Gaudi, whose body lies in the basilica's crypt.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
If that stem cell develops epigenetic changes, every cell within the crypt inherits them.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2026
Coffins, a crypt and a creepy statue of a young girl are what greets us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025
Bod had stores of food, the kind that lasted, cached in the crypt, and more in some of the chillier tombs and vaults and mausoleums.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
Brontë was fascinated by silent crypts and tormenting passions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Truly, baseball crypts are filled with the dead arms of pitchers who were asked to compete in the postseason outside of their comfort zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Serrated adenomas, on the other hand, are associated with a different type of stem-like cell with fetal characteristics that appears mysteriously at the tops of the crypts.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
The preserved corpses were unintentionally mummified when they were buried in crypts in a dry, mineral-rich soil environment in the mining state of Guanajuato.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024
Pickles kept in dim crypts and basements by every family, each with their own recipe passed down from generation to generation.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Vocabulary lists containing crypt
"The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
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