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
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
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
