entombing
- present participle of entomb.
Example Sentences
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Two days later, they retrieved the bulldozer and filled the hole, entombing those stories in the old dining room forever.
From Salon • May 29, 2023
Underwater avalanches buried anemones and other soft-bodied animals, entombing them to become fossils.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2023
Many drawers and cabinets are sealed, and an upper deck has collapsed, entombing Franklin’s cabin and making it “a very difficult but enticing place,” Mr. Harris said.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2020
We can spend our whole lives trying to piece them together into a pretty picture and only look up from this entombing self-focus when it’s very late in the game.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2018
Hundreds of tumuli scattered over the country, entombing kysts, coffins, fragments of skeletons, and rude pottery, and not less the names of streets and places, supply interesting testimony of their existence.
From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter
