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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

The bronze crypt plate mounted at the mausoleum had the star’s name engraved on it before she died, alongside her husband’s name and a depiction of her Tennessee home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

Give me lighting that makes it possible for me to take a Zoom call without looking like I’ve been buried alive in a dark crypt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 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

Gunners sleep, nuns in a crypt beneath the cathedral sleep, children in old corsairs’ cellars sleep in the laps of sleeping mothers.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Brontë was fascinated by silent crypts and tormenting passions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The limestone walls of the crypts and atmosphere within them is believed to have helped preserve the remains.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025

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

One gloved hand still clutched the rusty iron longsword he had taken from the crypts below Winterfell, and from time to time he would lash out at a branch, knocking loose a spray of snow.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin