Example sentences for: embalmed

How can you use “embalmed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Xinjiang Museum (Xinjiang Bowuguan), with explanatory cards in English, Chinese, and Uighur, contains Silk Road coins, earrings, tiles, silks, and a handful of mummies, embalmed as long ago as the 13th century b.c.

  • The newest building on the square, called the Chairman Mao Zedong Memorial Hall, contains the embalmed body of the man who led the People’s Republic for its first 27 years.

  • Marthe looks embalmed in formaldehyde, her features dissolving before our eyes.

  • It takes another hour to search for the Book of the Dead's opposite number, which will theoretically send Imhotep back to the cosmic soup from which he sprang before he can transfer the heroine's soul to the embalmed remains of his lady love.

  • Like the ancient Egyptians they carefully embalmed their dead, presumably for a ceremonial passage to the next world.


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