Sentence examples for entomb from inspiring English sources

'entomb' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means to bury or place in a grave or tomb. It can also be used figuratively to mean to trap or confine someone or something. Example: The ancient pharaohs of Egypt were entombed in grand pyramids with all their treasures and possessions. Example 2: The prisoners were entombed in a tiny, dark cell with no hope of escape.

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entomb

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To deposit in a tomb

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The third option is simply to entomb the whole reactor in concrete as was done, heroically, after the Chernobyl explosion in 1986.

Not to entomb him there of course - perish the thought - but so he can see a project that will grow the UK economy by £63 billion, that is creating three fifths of its contracts outside London that is helping tens of thousands of people into jobs across the country," the Mayor said.

As Frederic Chopin gasped for air on his deathbed in Paris in 1849, he whispered a request that became the stuff of musical legend: Remove my heart after I die and entomb it in Poland.

The precarious stack on my windowsill — the one that's not occupied by a clunky air conditioner, that is — inches ever higher, threatening to entomb me in my little bedroom forever, "Cask of Amantillado" style.

And didn't this entomb her in the history that Finley revisits here, propelled by a fitting rage?

Liebesman scorns the slow burn that prevailed to the north, in San Francisco, where Philip Kaufman's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" made it hard for us even to gauge who the aliens were, so cunningly did they entomb themselves in our physiques.

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Distraught relatives lined up yesterday at an improvised morgue in a bloodstained alleyway to identify some of those mangled and entombed in Saturday's quake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale.

Apparently his body was brought from Constantinople in the 4th century, and is entombed in the cathedral, a fascinating architectural fusion of Moorish and European styles.

In Essos, Dany was shown the incinerated corpse of a little girl and, heart sore, chained her own dragon children; entombing them in the catacombs of Meereen.

The discovery, a few years ago, of several dozen entombed Bronze Age settlements, about 15km north-north-west of the volcano, is today showing that Vesuvius is able to devastate a far wider region than succumbed in 79AD.Nola is one of the best preserved of these sites.

WITH a heavy clunk, the steel outer doors of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault closed on February 28th, shutting out a howling Arctic gale and entombing a tonne of new arrivals: 25,000 seed samples from America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Tajikistan, Armenia and Syria.

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