How to Use mummy in a Sentence

mummy

noun
  • Tune in to this week’s episode to learn more about this yummy mummy!
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 17 June 2026
  • What kind of music do mummies listen to?
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
  • That’s a museum for me and mummies?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • These aren’t mummies in the traditional sense of the word.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But others that are present in the mummy have become far rarer as our diets have evolved.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 June 2026
  • But elsewhere on and in the mummy, the team also found some microbes that weren’t actually dead.
    — ArsTechnica, 6 June 2026
  • Non-carving pumpkin ideas Turn your pumpkin into a mummy!
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Egypt’s mummies are the most well-known, but the process can also happen naturally in places like glacier ice, desert sands and bog sludge.
    — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The team analyzed ice from the surface of Ötzi’s body, as well as meltwater inside the mummy.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
  • They aren't usually called mummies, though, but rather Immortals.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
  • And at least for our mummies, there’s no DNA, there’s no tissue structure, there’s nothing.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Southeast Asia’s prehistoric mummies were smoked.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Southeast Asia’s prehistoric mummies were smoked.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The latest findings add to a growing body of recent research on mummies and other ancient remains.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
  • That’s enough to protect the mummy from most of the microbes that usually help decompose human remains.
    — ArsTechnica, 6 June 2026
  • The study’s authors hope other researchers can now apply the methods described in their study on other dinosaur mummies.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Since before the days of mummies in Ancient Egypt, human burial sites have been largely seen as sacred.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But a mummy entombed in an Egyptian necropolis takes that sentiment to the extreme.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Europe’s oldest natural mummy, Ötzi the Iceman, died with moss packed into his boots for warmth.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
  • When the mummy was found in 1991, it was initially treated as a normal cadaver.
    — CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • While the mummification process seems to be the same or similar thousands of years apart, the ancient mummies were buried while the new mummies are kept safe.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In ancient Egypt, no single community could produce a mummy.
    — R. Alexander Bentley, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Serve the appetizer with traditional condiments like ketchup and mustard, which can also be used to draw funny faces on the mummies.
    — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Two mummies that were analyzed date from about 130 to 1,870 years ago, according to the study.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Egypt has long been a permanent fixture of the tourism circuit, its pyramids and mummies conferring an indelible allure.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Researchers excavated seven mummies along with the bones of 54 other cheetahs from a site near the city of Arar.
    — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The dinosaurs are not mummies in the same sense as bodies elaborately preserved in ancient Egypt for the afterlife.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Though the mummy shows no signs of damage, this discovery raises concerns about its future safety and conservation.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
  • Scientists have studied mummies to learn more about the mummification process and also the condition of the bodies.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Three out of the four species can break down phenol, an antifungal compound that conservators used to treat the mummy in 1991.
    — ArsTechnica, 6 June 2026

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