mummify

Example Sentences

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Hot deserts are just one of many environments in which corpses naturally mummify.

From National Geographic • Aug. 7, 2023

Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the workshops had been used to mummify humans and sacred animals.

From Washington Times • May 27, 2023

These injuries suggest that Dakota’s carcass remained unburied and vulnerable to scavenging for some time after the dinosaur’s death—but if the dino wasn’t rapidly buried, how did it mummify?

From Scientific American • Oct. 14, 2022

In drier climes, it can mummify for years; in wetter ones, a face becomes a skull in weeks.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2019

The afternoon had become as hot as meanness, and since the shirt he was wearing had enough starch in it to mummify two, maybe three, pharaohs, he began to feel he could hardly breathe.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt