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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

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

Concrete pours planned for October will entomb their handiwork.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

Mr. Cizinsky said that if — somehow — he prevailed and was able to entomb the bodies, he would do so quietly and with dignity.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 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

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

The oily shale that entombs those fossils was laid down as lake sediments about 47 million years ago, says Walter Joyce, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 20, 2012

Passing under this cliff was like finding yourself, as some sea- hunters unexpectedly have, beneath the open, upper jaw of a whale; which, descending, infallibly entombs you.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

Nearby infrastructure is shattered and entombed beneath the deposits.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

"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

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

And suddenly I found myself thinking, Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed, to give life or to receive it?

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

“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

But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight, Into a western couch of thunder-cloud; And thou, a ghost, amid the entombing trees 50 Didst glide away.

From Selections from Poe by J. Montgomery Gambrill