entombment

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Massive blast doors that looked like they belonged on the largest bank vault in the universe were supposed to keep us safe, though in a nuclear war they might only have ensured our entombment.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

KRAKOW, Poland — On a slab in the middle of the stage is the body of an elderly man, being prepared for entombment.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

Now, 100 years after the first entombment, Blassie’s exhumation is part of a broader challenge to “the nationalist ideology” that the tombs represent, said Michael J. Allen, a history professor at Northwestern University.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2021

It will then be brought back in front of the altar to await the service and later, entombment in a crypt below the altar.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2015

On the lower part is the murder; on the upper, the entombment of the saint, very similar in style to the later Limoges work of the thirteenth century.

From Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See by Fisher, A. Hugh (Alfred Hugh)