How to Use entomb in a Sentence

entomb

verb
  • Now old, the two survivors are siloed in their grief — alive and lucky, sure, but still entombed.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Many have no grave to call their own, entombed beneath the seas in the arms of their shipmates.
    — The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2024
  • Soon, water and mud piled on top of her until she was nearly entombed.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2018
  • Soon enough, each of the four were entombed in their own phone activity.
    — Megan Angelo, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
  • He was entombed in the snow for about 50 minutes, much longer than most avalanche survivors.
    — Author: Nicholas K. Geranios, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • This may then have been protected from decay by the volcanic ash that entombed the body.
    — Colin Barras, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Today, the base lies entombed beneath at least 100 feet of ice.
    — Isabel Van Brugen john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
  • The steel looked like a piece of giant graph paper before it was entombed in the wet concrete.
    — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • At the most, the whole vehicle will be crushed and entomb the four crewmembers within.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Thousands of people are still believed to be entombed in the rubble.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • And over there, the golden dome of the Invalides where Napoleon is entombed!
    — John Leicester, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
  • And over there, the golden dome of the Invalides where Napoleon is entombed !
    — John Leicester, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
  • When the trees died, their massive trunks became entombed in peat and sediment.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2020
  • She was found entombed in an airtight casket that was 37 inches tall.
    — Joseph Serna, latimes.com, 10 May 2017
  • The entrance of the cave was filled with concrete, entombing the body inside.
    — Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Stopped right there and buried partially under hundreds of pounds of ice; entombed.
    — Maya Silver, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The creature died when a small amount of tree resin fell on its head, eventually entombing its skull.
    — Fox News, 12 Mar. 2020
  • In the 1960s, a dam had been proposed that would have entombed much of it under a reservoir.
    — USA TODAY, 25 May 2018
  • Eventually, the objects sank, hidden and entombed, in more than six feet of oozing peat and silt.
    — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Lick died at age 80 just a few months later and is entombed at the observatory.
    — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 13 June 2026
  • Sunny had been missing for hours when someone realized he was entombed under a driveway.
    — Mark Price april 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Besides plants and flowers, a dinosaur tail, a crab, a hell ant, a spider mom and her young, and a firefly have been found entombed in globs of tree resin.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The waste would go into barrels and the barrels would go into the caverns, where the salt would eventually entomb them.
    — Michael Lewis, The Hive, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Acutis was entombed in Assisi, where millions flocked to see him through glass, dressed in jeans, Nike sneakers and a sweatshirt.
    — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The offcuts were entombed, encased in this diamond and preserved.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But a mummy entombed in an Egyptian necropolis takes that sentiment to the extreme.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The best course of action, Miner said, is to try and halt the thaw, and the wider climate crisis, and keep these hazards entombed in the permafrost for good.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The sunken battleship entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines at Pearl Harbor.
    — Jim Mustian, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • The remains of at least 40 ships are still entombed beneath the Financial District.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
  • And the researchers say these practices, such as kin being entombed together, likely came from Roman culture.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 29 Apr. 2026

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