a number of Boston's historic notables are entombed in the Old Granary Burying Ground
Recent Examples on the WebCrato fossils were squished flat like pressed flowers; Romualdo fossils were entombed in nodules of stone.—Michael Greshko, New York Times, 9 May 2024 Eisenberg, 40, and Keough, 34, agree on the best costume part, but perhaps don’t share their castmate’s enthusiasm for being entombed in the garb, which Eisenberg says took nearly two hours to put on.—USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024 Even in Evergreen, where others were buried for free, Chinese families had to pay $10 to entomb their dead.—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024 Into the earth the shovels go, and out spring various Etruscan artifacts, mostly pottery, that were entombed, roughly two millennia ago, alongside their deceased owners.—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for entomb
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English entoumben, from Middle French entomber, from en- + tombe tomb
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