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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

Army Corps of Engineers decided to entomb the river in concrete to speed up water flow and prevent flooding, a project that was completed in the 1960s.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 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

Cardinal, 286 entombs the relics of the three saints anew, 294.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

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

That’s a linchpin scene from Terry Gilliam’s visionary 1985 masterpiece “Brazil,” a prophetic and bleakly satirical depiction of a society entombed in fascism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

“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

It is true, that digging into the bowels of the earth for the purpose of entombing the bodies of the dead was no new operation.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various