Example Sentences

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Everything else is below ground, though the natural light eliminates any tomblike feel.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2021

Though tomblike, the building never was intended to memorialize the dead — pharmacist or otherwise.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2017

It has the added advantage of avoiding the often free-standing, portentous, tomblike structures that house these pieces.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2013

But most evenings, a tomblike silence descends on Naypyidaw.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2011

The room was indeed tomblike: a quality stale and static and moribund beyond any mere vivid and living cold.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner