(v. t.) To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.
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.
Hearse
Definition:
(n.) A hind in the year of its age.
(n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
(n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
(n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
(n.) A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
(v. t.) To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than 200 people attended the East End-style funeral, complete with a horse-drawn hearse.
(2) Builders and plumbers want to cut corners by taking their final journey in a white van, while farmers fancy a send-off on a horse-drawn cart, tractor or even a specially manufactured Land Rover hearse and matching limousine.
(3) A pipe and drum band and mounted members of law enforcement in dress uniform advanced before the hearse.
(4) Unusual hearses – once a niche market – are setting a trend for send-offs with a difference as almost a quarter (23%) of Britons say they want to make their last journey in a personalised vehicle, according to new research from the UK’s biggest funeral director.
(5) Mark Gatiss , who co-created Sherlock with Moffat and wrote the third series' opening episode, The Empty Hearse, said: "We knew right from the start how we were going to do it.
(6) Rain fell softly on Eric Garner’s white casket as it was loaded into a hearse that would drive the 43-year-old father, who died after a New York police officer put him in a chokehold , to his final resting place following an emotional funeral on Wednesday night.
(7) A lone trumpeter played the Last Post as troops in dress uniform saluted then carried the wooden caskets to a row of hearses.
(8) Earlier in the day, Ali’s hearse had made a slow procession to the Cave Hill cemetery.
(9) The company, which has a network of more than 900 funeral homes across the UK, carried out a study into alternative hearses which are now used in almost 40,000 funerals every year.
(10) The hearses of the two men were parked at the front of the parking lot to be prayed on before they were driven out to lead a procession of mourners to the mosque.
(11) There are also alternatives for hire like a camper van hearse or a motorbike hearse.
(12) After Gately's coffin was carried out of the church, the surviving members of Boyzone stood behind the hearse in a silent group, huddled for a few minutes' reflection while local women and children showered them and the hearse with dozens of white roses.
(13) This time, the coffin will be transferred to a horse-drawn hearse, to lead the way to a service of compline, with a sermon from a Roman Catholic archbishop, Vincent Nicholls.
(14) In utter silence, the coffins were carefully loaded into hearses and taken away for identification at Hilversum.
(15) You don’t have to dig deep for a funeral – there are cheaper alternatives Read more You don’t have to transport the dead in a hearse.
(16) I imagine there will be one hearse for me and the rest will be bikes.
(17) Some sheltered from the rain in shop doorways, hours ahead of the moment the hearses carrying the bodies were to be driven through the town on their way to a hospital in Oxford.
(18) At 1.30pm, the coffin was carried out of St Laurence's on the shoulders of Gately's bandmates and placed in the hearse that would take him on to the Glasnevin cemetery.
(19) But if you choose to do it all yourself, with an eco-coffin, a basic cremation and an estate car or van instead of a hearse, it’s possible to get the cost down to a fraction of that – perhaps as little as £400.
(20) She had no idea when the body was buried and never saw hearses enter or leave the property.