How to Use entomb in a Sentence

entomb

verb
  • About 900 sailors and Marines remain entombed in the ship.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • And over there, the golden dome of the Invalides where Napoleon is entombed!
    John Leicester, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
  • And over there, the golden dome of the Invalides where Napoleon is entombed !
    John Leicester, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
  • In the 1960s, a dam had been proposed that would have entombed much of it under a reservoir.
    USA TODAY, 25 May 2018
  • He was entombed in the snow for about 50 minutes, much longer than most avalanche survivors.
    Author: Nicholas K. Geranios, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • At the most, the whole vehicle will be crushed and entomb the four crewmembers within.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The steel looked like a piece of giant graph paper before it was entombed in the wet concrete.
    Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • The shah's remains are entombed at Cairo's Al-Rifai Mosque.
    Jon Gambrell, ajc, 29 May 2023
  • Soon enough, each of the four were entombed in their own phone activity.
    Megan Angelo, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
  • This may then have been protected from decay by the volcanic ash that entombed the body.
    Colin Barras, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Thousands of people are still believed to be entombed in the rubble.
    Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The best course of action, Miner said, is to try and halt the thaw, and the wider climate crisis, and keep these hazards entombed in the permafrost for good.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Soon, water and mud piled on top of her until she was nearly entombed.
    Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2018
  • You could get trapped in the sap of a tree, which will eventually entomb your body in gorgeous amber.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2012
  • But in 2004, Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf Coast, sweeping up the seabed and sediment that kept the forest entombed.
    Alicia Lee, CNN, 7 Apr. 2020
  • When the trees died, their massive trunks became entombed in peat and sediment.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2020
  • She was found entombed in an airtight casket that was 37 inches tall.
    Joseph Serna, latimes.com, 10 May 2017
  • Vesuvius is best-known for the eruption of A.D. 79, which entombed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
    Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The remains of at least 40 ships are still entombed beneath the Financial District.
    Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The creature died when a small amount of tree resin fell on its head, eventually entombing its skull.
    Fox News, 12 Mar. 2020
  • His body lies entombed within the temple’s marble walls.
    Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Oblivion, like the loose earth scattered over their tortured bodies, would then entomb them.
    Tom Holland, Time, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Though most often seen in Southeast Asia, the fungus strain can be found in the U.S. growing on ants entombed on lower branches of beech trees.
    Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Because Parker was entombed in about 4 feet of snow, invisible to the dozens of people who by now had amassed on the face of the mountain to look for survivors.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Fuzak, a skier who lives in the nearby Spokane, Washington, area, said he was entombed in the snow for about 50 minutes, much longer than most avalanche survivors.
    Nicholas K. Geranios, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The obelisk was completed in 1901 and his remains were moved for a final time, entombed under the sandstone pillar.
    USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The waste would go into barrels and the barrels would go into the caverns, where the salt would eventually entomb them.
    Michael Lewis, The Hive, 2 Aug. 2017
  • The victims’ bodies cannot be recovered as they are entombed in a deep crevasse under glacial ice in the national park.
    Morning Brief, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2018
  • Roughly 650 million years ago vast sheets of glaciers stretched from the poles to the tropics, entombing Earth within a frozen skin that lingered for millions of years.
    Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2018
  • And on a hot August day in 1988, a crew lowered the bomb through a hole drilled thousands of feet into the Nevada Test Site, then entombed it beneath millions of pounds of sand.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018

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