(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.
Tomb
Definition:
(n.) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
(n.) A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.
(n.) A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.
(v. t.) To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(2) "The minutes of August's MPC meeting, revealing the first split interest rate vote since July 2011, indicate that a 2014 rate hike cannot be ruled out," said Samuel Tombs, senior UK economist at Capital Economics .
(3) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
(4) Ian Livingstone is not all that keen on being photographed near the life-sized model of Lara Croft in his study – even though he was largely responsible for launching her on the world nearly 20 years ago, and the heroine of the Tomb Raider video games, comics and films helped to make his fortune.
(5) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
(6) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
(7) The MPC likely will place much more weight at next week’s meeting on the weak official data for the first quarter than on April’s better PMIs, and we expect Kristin Forbes to remain alone in voting to raise interest rates,” said Samuel Tombs, the chief UK economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics.
(8) I have this fantastic job, but at the same time I can go and interview Hamid Karzai and go to Arundel tomb, and you can't do that if you're mayor of London.
(9) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
(10) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
(11) Samuel Tombs at Capital Economics said cost pressures cast some doubt over recovery.
(12) Samuel Tombs, UK economist at consultancy Capital Economics, said: “There is little merit in economic terms of tying your hands so far in the future.
(13) Life imprisonment, he said, was like living in a tomb .
(14) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
(15) If you go to the tomb of Martin Luther King in Atlanta, the parallels are obvious and deliberate.
(16) "Some people built tombs to steal archaeology, definitely," said 28-year-old Walid Ibrahim, picnicking on the boundary between the old and new cemeteries.
(17) The energy required for motility of sea urchin sperm is transported from the mitochondrion to the flagellum by a phosphocreatine shuttle involving diffusion of phosphocreatine (PCr) between isozymes of creatine kinase (CrK) localized at the two sites (Tombes and Shapiro, Cell, 41:325, '85; Tombes et al., Biophys.
(18) With tourism decimated since the ousting of Mohamed Morsi as president in July, Egyptian authorities hope the new tomb will help bring visitors back to Luxor.
(19) Nearly 200 square metres have been excavated and 50 lorries lined up to remove material, but it was not clear on Thursday whether Iranian forces had reached the point of unearthing tombs.
(20) Now the physical intervention is about to start.” The chapel above the tomb where Christ is believed to have been buried and resurrected is in danger of collapse.