entombment

Example Sentences

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Well, wouldn’t you go snorkeling around a solemn mass entombment if you got the chance, too?

From Slate • May 16, 2026

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

“She had a double affection for the two countries,” Ms. Baker’s daughter, Marianne Bouillon-Baker, said at an American reception on the eve of the entombment.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021

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

Abdu’l-Ḥamíd and the formal entombment of the Báb’s remains on Mt.

From God Passes By by Shoghi Effendi