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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

The idea is that the shifting salt will eventually entomb the radioactive waste left from decades of bomb-making and nuclear weapons research.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 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

A long sigh breaks the blank silence: a moan steals helplessly from the great white mausoleum which entombs the man.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie

"In essence, if someone was just scratching on a bit of concrete, we'd be able to pick that up," he says, "even if they are entombed in the building".

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

The hospital simply put identifying stickers on the bicycles and entombed them far from public view.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

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

“You can tell a lot about a street by the type of chairs and how they’re placed,” said Knapp, who walked 2.5 miles round trip for groceries and beer while his car was entombed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

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

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

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

Sandler plays Ratner at a breakneck pace, entombing himself in a dungeon of his own bad decisions.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019

Engineers anticipated that the ice—already a dozen meters thick—would continue to accumulate in northwestern Greenland, permanently entombing what they left behind.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 4, 2016

But you were telling me about this man, this Rust,’ said Mr. Scrake, mashing his potatoes, and entombing a lump of butter in the heart of a small pyramid of them.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various