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Recent Examples of sarcophagus
It’s designed to look like a sarcophagus from the film.
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
Thanks to Payraudeau’s research, experts now know that the granite sarcophagus was reused by a high priest named Menkheperre around 1000 B.C.E., masking its connection to its original occupant.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Plot details are being kept in the sarcophagus but Cronin is hoping to breathe modern life into ageless evil.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
Hoult previously opened up to Deadline about the experience with his tiny co-stars, which also covered Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) during one scene of the vampire in a sarcophagus.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
Thanks to Payraudeau’s research, experts now know that the granite sarcophagus was reused by a high priest named Menkheperre around 1000 B.C.E., masking its connection to its original occupant.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Plot details are being kept in the sarcophagus but Cronin is hoping to breathe modern life into ageless evil.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
Hoult previously opened up to Deadline about the experience with his tiny co-stars, which also covered Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) during one scene of the vampire in a sarcophagus.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sarcophagus
Noun
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Easton had his wife’s body placed in an open casket.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Jan. 2025
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The show struggles a bit in places to credibly evoke the relative innocence (or quiet oppression) of the 1970s and there are some moments of cluttered staging that just don’t work; as one example, a big gag involving kids hiding in a coffin kinda needs a casket to work.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In the end, this deception will just be another nail in the coffin of legacy media.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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At one funeral in Ankara, the coffins of a family of five were lined up at the central Ahmet Hamdi Akseki mosque.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In it, a small baby lies on a tomb of red velvet, her skin and dress a rocky gray (Eguiguren Arte de Hispanomérica, D10) and eye sockets blank, an icy contrast to the fresh roses and wildflowers with which she is adorned.—
Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Sarcophagus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sarcophagus. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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