a number of Boston's historic notables are entombed in the Old Granary Burying Ground
Recent Examples on the WebNinety-nine out of 100 elevators are utilitarian things entombed inside walls so no one has to see their ugly guts.—Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2024 Du Bois, who died in 1963, is entombed in Accra, Ghana.—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024 In addition to the governor and his wife, family members also entombed in the pyramid include their only child, Virginia, and her second husband, William E. Frund; Mrs. Hunt’s parents, Jessie and Susan Ellison; and the Ellison’s other daughter, Lena Ellison.—Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2024 The ash entombed the invertebrates living in the soft mud of the ocean floor, and within hours reacted with chemicals in seawater and hardened into a rock that preserved a perfect mold of the creatures.—science.org, 3 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for entomb
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English entoumben, from Middle French entomber, from en- + tombe tomb
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