entomb

Example Sentences

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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

The tension of not knowing whether the slow-moving molten rock would entomb their homes, farmland and businesses is taking a toll on local people, Rodríguez said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Critically endangered American burying beetles entomb dead animals “in an underground crypt” so their offspring can feed on the carcass, Barclay says.

From National Geographic • Nov. 22, 2017

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