mummy

Example Sentences

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During Greco-Roman times, Egyptian artists were called upon to inscribe funerary spells on linen mummy bandages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In most cases the “mummy portraits”—as the paintings are called—came to be pried or detached from the full mummy by excavators, archaeologists or thieves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

"Because Rachel wanted to get in there and get that money for mummy and what she wanted it for meant that it meant so much more than just the money," she added.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

They mapped a compact "mummy zone" within these rock layers, which represent stacked river sands.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025

That was Fern’s cue to give the mummy jar another drumroll.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia