entombment
Example Sentences
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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
It’s a solitary, nocturnal job, but entombment works for Sol.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
In 1998, 14 years after the Vietnam-era soldier’s entombment, he was exhumed and positively identified as Air Force Lt.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
The air inside felt stale, and I started to imagine all of the souls that once resided in this icy entombment.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2021
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)
