tomb
noun
an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
tomblike
-
a word derived from
tomb.
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
Both men are more concerning than anything going bump in the home’s tomblike basement.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2021
Though tomblike, the building never was intended to memorialize the dead — pharmacist or otherwise.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2017
Even the immaculate-white Hanover Merzbau, in a much-traveled full-scale reconstruction from the 1980s by the stage designer Peter Bissegger, feels claustrophobic and tomblike.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2011
In the manor house, which was paved with tomblike slabs, the sun was never seen.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
