(n.) The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.
(v. t.) To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Holy Sepulchre is the most sacred monument of Christianity.
(2) Perhaps it was a sort of optical illusion of "the kingdom of heaven", the post-apocalypse New Jerusalem described in the Book of Revelation as well as an approximation of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, according to travellers' accounts .
(3) The World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced on Tuesday that the gift from Mica Ertegun, the widow of Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, would allow work to begin in earnest on the conservation project inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s old city.
(4) In 2003, after being awarded the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem: Knight Commander with star, and serving as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, he was promoted by John Paul II, becoming only the third resident Scottish cardinal since the Reformation.
(5) It’s really horrible.” Such is the damage from a sepulchral few years at Bloomfield Road.
(6) Patriarch Theophilos III told Maariv: "If nothing changes we intend to announce within a few days, for the first time in centuries, that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is closed."
(7) Critics were less kind about Sepulchre , which she now says was rushed.
(8) Christian pilgrims en route to Via Dolorosa and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site of Jesus's crucifixion, mingle with Muslims heading to the sacred Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque, and Jews intent on praying at the revered Western Wall, the last surviving remnant of the Second Temple.
(9) Explaining the reasons for London’s sepulchral quiet, Netherton tells Flynne that a lot of apocalyptic dominoes fell, but it began, of course, with the climate: “People in the past, clueless as to how that worked, had fucked it all up, then not been able to get it together to do anything about it, even after they knew, and now it was too late.” This is not futurology as satire, any more than a long-range weather forecast is satire.
(10) He ensured the Church of the Holy Sepulchre remained a Christian place of worship.
(11) The moment you set eyes on them, you know that these beautiful people will die, that they are already dead and gone, and yet they live in the here and now of this moment, brief and bright as fireflies beneath the sepulchral gloom.
(12) is a much sunnier picture, and more purely comedic than its sepulchral predecessor,” he said.
(13) The Church of the Holy Sepulchre covers the assumed site of Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection.
(14) One of the most venerated sites in the Christian faith, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Jesus is believed to have been crucified, buried and resurrected, is facing a financial crisis over an unpaid water bill in a row that could result in its closure.
(15) Jesus denounced his Pharisaic enemies as whited sepulchres, or shining tombs; and that is what the steam-cleaned marble frontage of St Paul's will become if the protesters are evicted to make room for empty pomp: a whited sepulchre, where morality and truth count for nothing against the convenience of the heritage industry.
(16) Maurice, meanwhile, is terrified of mouldering in respectable suburbia, dragging some poor virgin into the sepulchre with him.
(17) Today's saccharine sanctimony will try to whiten the sepulchre of yet another Pope whose obscurantist faith has caused pointless suffering; it is no defence that he was only obeying higher orders.
(18) In the sepulchral hush, you can hear the cheers from over on Centre.
(19) It speaks quite meaningfully to what it might mean to perform this play in an election year.” Intriguingly, King John will also be taken to candlelit churches which have strong ties to that time – Temple church in London , where several of the play’s key characters are buried, and the Holy Sepulchre in Northampton , a church frequently visited by King John and his court.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christians pray at Christ’s tomb as experts begin renovation in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
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.