untombed
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a word derived from
tomb.
tombnounan excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
Example Sentences
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Dakota the “dino mummy” has fascinated paleontologists and the public since part of the fossil was first untombed in North Dakota with some of its skin preserved.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Shall we desert snug homes? forego the sum Scraped through laborious years to smooth life's slope, And die like dogs unkenneled and untombed, At bidding of a sorrow-crazed old man?
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus
What, though beside the foaming flood untombed their ashes lie,— All earth becomes the monument of men who nobly die.
From Famous Firesides of French Canada by Mary Wilson Alloway
In the year 1843, the season being warmer than usual, a mass of Siberian ice thawed, and, in thawing, untombed one of these animals, perfect in all respects, even to the skin and hair.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
Very much of the ivory manufactured in Russia consists of the tusks of these now extinct mammoths, untombed from time to time.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur