The word "sepulcher" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun which means a chamber or vault used for burying the dead, or a large tomb. Example: The explorers discovered a sepulcher filled with artifacts from the lost civilization.
Standing there, before the pink marble sepulcher, the gravedigger lay a potted chrysanthemum on it.
I returned to the Montparnasse cemetery today, to visit the polished black-granite sepulcher of Susan Sontag, who died, in 2004, at the age of seventy-two, from a rare blood malignancy.
Standing there, before the pink marble sepulcher, the gravedigger lay a potted chrysanthemum on it, and when I shook his hand in gratitude, I could feel the dry soil of Paris, the same soil that Baudelaire was able to transform into rhapsodic poetry.
My heart did not beat faster at Stephen's sepulcher, but nearby it leapt at the primal allure of Chilia lui Daniil Sihastrul, the cave of the prince's spiritual adviser, the ascetic mystic Daniel the Hermit, which he carved out of the cliff and inhabited for 14 years.
At a certain point, "Antiviral" doesn't know where to go or how to break out of its vacuum-sealed sepulcher, and Syd, even when vomiting blood, remains as incorporeal and creepy as a ghost.
Thanks to the work, the sepulcher is now open to visitors every Saturday morning, on guided visits only, with a maximum of 12 people per group.
For his contributions to Milan, Mr. Noorda was given a sepulcher in the city's historic cemetery, the Famedio del Cimitero Monumentale, where some of its most famous citizens are buried.
As the westernmost spit of land on the Spanish mainland, it was a place of mystical obsession long before an errant hermit found St. James's sepulcher.
But the sepulcher, just off the Appian Way, still has niches for the tombs, tunnels and even fresco fragments.
Here, his "whited with quicklime" (rather than "whitewashed," the choice of all the other translations I found) at once exploits the possibilities of assonance and introduces the echo of the King James "whited sepulcher" without betraying the meaning of the original.
They rubbed their scarves on the Stone of Unction where Jesus' body was said to have been prepared for burial, and they lighted candles next to the sepulcher itself before immediately snuffing them out.
