Example sentences for: entombed

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

  • This site proved so perfect that all but three of the succeeding Ming rulers were entombed in the same valley.

  • The Valley of the Kings was also chosen as a new burial ground for the Pharaohs when Tuthmoses I (1504–1492 b.c. ) was entombed in a narrow valley across the river from the temple at Karnak.

  • Knowledge, in the instance of the definitive reference book, becomes entombed and sanctified, very much serving the anti-intellectual ends of the middlebrow, who want not to encounter knowledge and to wrestle with it but to store it as an authority on the bookshelf.

  • Courtyards and elaborate pavilions, similar to those in the Forbidden City, cap underground burial chambers where the emperor, with his empress and concubines, is entombed.

  • Tuthmosis I was the first Pharaoh to be entombed there c.1490 b.c. choosing a narrow valley out of site of the capital as a secret and supposedly safe location for his resting place, cut deep into the rock.


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