What's the difference between buried and entombed?

Buried


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Bury

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
  • (2) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
  • (3) That was long after the demolition of nearby Hyde Abbey, where he was originally buried with his son and other members of his family more than 1,000 years ago.
  • (4) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
  • (5) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (6) BB July 8, 2014 Barry Bateman (@barrybateman) #OscarTrial Barry Roux has his head buried in a law journal.
  • (7) Quenching data indicated that five out of 22 tryptophans in CBH are surface-localized and are available for quenching with both KI and acrylamide, and three other tryptophans are buried and are available only to acrylamide.
  • (8) Suture knots are buried in the sclera to minimize the risk of late-onset endophthalmitis.
  • (9) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
  • (10) Between 1972 and 1985, 17 people were abducted, sometimes tortured, then killed and buried.
  • (11) The results indicate the presence of carbohydrate epitopes buried within collagenous polypeptides that are exposed by harsh denaturing conditions.
  • (12) "The middle class was buried by the policies that Romney and Ryan have supported," he told the crowd in Asheville, North Carolina, according to the Washington Post .
  • (13) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
  • (14) I would like to see the return to a free university system for Australian students so everybody can have the same dreams and aspirations about bettering themselves and this nation, regardless of their circumstances.” Palmer said Australia’s best thinkers were being “stifled” and the country was “burying them in debt”.
  • (15) Regions 1-51, 250-310, 567-612, 650-670, and 1307-1382 are particularly buried whereas the 3'-terminal domain and the 5'-proximal region (nucleotides 53-218) are exposed.
  • (16) Those who remained in east Aleppo pointed out where families had been buried under mountains of concrete.
  • (17) We took advantage of this conserved structural conformation to help predict which variant subregions of VSG molecules may contain exposed or buried variant specific B cell epitopes.
  • (18) I hope these works are not buried in the museum's basement aimlessly.
  • (19) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
  • (20) The 125,000 dalton complex seems to be buried inside the lipid layer.

Entombed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Entomb

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sergeant Kerry Hazelhurst said the body was no longer in Worcester, east of Boston, and was now entombed.
  • (2) Most tissues were completely disintegrated and partly replaced by masses of bacteria, an indication of considerable postmortem decay before the remains were entombed beneath the permafrost zone.
  • (3) Once they had passed, it was announced the Kaczyńskis would be entombed in Krakow's Wawel Cathedral, the resting place of Polish historical leaders.
  • (4) We were not going to be modern sacrifices, entombed in some future museum, still clutching our votive digital gadgets.
  • (5) I think of that configuration of berm, chamber, shaft, disc and hot cell – all set atop the casks of pulsing radioactive molecules entombed deep in the Permian strata – as perhaps our purest Anthropocene architecture.
  • (6) Trypanosomes became entombed in the peritrophic membrane (PM) to form intraperitrophic cavities which were more electron-translucent than the amorphous layer of the PM.
  • (7) Foreman, roughly disabused of his conviction that all his rivals were entombed in physical inferiority, is by no means the only one left stunned by the blow and that gives Ali a particular satisfaction.
  • (8) The reasons for not doing so are many and various – who wants to retire entombed in a dead relationship?
  • (9) Next to those was a growing pile of the album Clandestine by the Swedish death metal band Entombed , being pressed on purple vinyl.
  • (10) Beyond the High Blue Air , her heart-searing memoir, pits the boundless energy of her funny, sporty, intellectually questing son against the entombing constraints of his MCS existence and the family’s eventual despair at being unable to release him from it.
  • (11) At a hilariously dismal-sounding Lowestoft hotel, did he really bend his fork on a battered fish "that had doubtless lain entombed in the deep-freeze for years"?
  • (12) What’s the right state of mind to contemplate pictures of the dead, the unarmed women and men and their kids, entombed in ash?
  • (13) This week, Carson restated his belief that the pyramids were built by the biblical Joseph to store grain , and not by Egyptians to entomb their kings.
  • (14) In self-defence, and despite themselves, people harden their identities, entombing their ethics and intellect in religion, ethnicity or privileged blue passports.
  • (15) Christened “Tiny”, she (I like to think it was female, but we can’t actually tell) is entombed in a chunk of boring, black rock.
  • (16) During the botched execution of Clayton Lockett, he was subjected to conscious chemical paralysis, chemical entombment and suffocation because paralytic drugs are very rapidly absorbed into the circulatory system even if they are accidentally injected outside of the vein and into the surrounding tissues.
  • (17) The large amounts of free fatty acids, diglycerides, cholesterol and phospholipids as intrinsic components were probably due to the persistence of membrane remnants entombed during enamel formation, as indicated by the visualization of holes and by the increase in the size and number of focal holes after lipid-solvent interaction with the enamel surface.
  • (18) Such calcified masses, often spherical in shape, have a sponge-like appearance with empty spaces representing the former sites of entombed and degenerated organisms.

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