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Low property prices in the country mean that for many, it is more affordable to entomb the ashes of relatives in an empty apartment than pay for funeral costs.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

That procedural rules are not meant to entomb the truth, especially when the state seeks to end a life.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2025

After fasting, monks would entomb themselves in a stone chamber underground or in a coffin, chanting prayers until they passed on.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 19, 2024

The idea is that the shifting salt will eventually entomb the radioactive waste left from decades of bomb-making and nuclear weapons research.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2022

Together with verbal coffins like model and level in which writers entomb their actors and actions, the English language provides them with a dangerous weapon called nominalization: making something into a noun.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

John Boorman’s bold, unnerving crime film “Point Blank” entombs its potent emotions within opaque performances, stripped-down dialogue and a cool-to-the-touch visual style.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

In a tragic extension of this structure, Moonlight entombs even Chiron’s adulthood in the confines of the closet.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2018

Joy’s mother, defeated by divorce, entombs herself in her bedroom, a man-fearing Miss Havisham addicted to soap operas.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 31, 2015

And just off a beach covered in sharp coral, a graveyard swallowed by the jungle entombs dozens of fishermen.

From Time ● Mar. 25, 2015

A long sigh breaks the blank silence: a moan steals helplessly from the great white mausoleum which entombs the man.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore

The hospital simply put identifying stickers on the bicycles and entombed them far from public view.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

In scenes that resemble a dystopian sci-fi movie, their widespread use has left swathes of frontline cities and fields entombed in webs of cable.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

Many of Tehran’s nuclear assets are entombed inside bombed facilities or at less-affected sites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

Adjacent to the entombed Griffin Warrior’s wrist was a carved and gold-tipped agate, almond-shaped and just 1.3 inches in length, here making its public debut outside Europe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

As daylight faded, I was entombed in a world darker than any night could bring.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

“Washington’s clearest nonproliferation wins against Iran in the war were stopping all uranium enrichment at declared facilities and entombing enriched uranium stockpiles,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

In March, Chinese authorities banned entombing cremated remains in empty apartments, a practice that took off as mourners tried to dodge rising funeral costs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Two days later, they retrieved the bulldozer and filled the hole, entombing those stories in the old dining room forever.

From Salon ● May 29, 2023

Underwater avalanches buried anemones and other soft-bodied animals, entombing them to become fossils.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2023

During the Turkish period these oases were in danger of their lives; the sand invaded them, choking up the waters and gradually entombing the plants.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas