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crypt

[kript] / krɪpt /


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“I had the Crypt Keeper mounted to the front of the camera dolly and pulled him through the crypt so he’d appear as if he was dancing along with everybody else.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

For safe-keeping, the flag is displayed in very low light, giving the chamber a sacred feel, like a cathedral crypt.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

It was dark in the crypt, and it smelled of mildew and damp and old stones, and it seemed, for the first time, very small.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

Brontë was fascinated by silent crypts and tormenting passions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The gut is made up of tiny structures called crypts, each formed from a single stem cell.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2026

The Church of Ireland crypts are also the resting place of Barristers Henry and John Sheares, two brothers who were leaders of the United Irishmen during the 1798 Rebellion.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025

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

In the dark crypts below Winterfell, a stonemason was chiseling out his father's likeness in granite.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin


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