Example sentences for: tombs

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

  • A particular fascination, and one both beautiful and gruesome, is the semi-ruined church whose floor has been partly excavated leaving tombs with bones and skulls exposed.

  • The Archaeological Museum includes important bronze statues of warriors and priests found in prehistoric tombs.

  • The church and its double-decker cloister survived the 1755 earthquake, and in addition to royal tombs holds the relics of national heroes Vasco da Gama and the poet Luis de Camões.

  • Jewelry: It’s not surprising, given the amount of gold thought to have been buried in Egyptian tombs — like the riches found in Tutankhamun’s in the 1920s — that gold and jewelry is a good buy in modern Egypt.

  • Because of the almost total lack of moisture, the murals in the tombs have retained their original lively colors — and many of the corpses haven’t aged much either.


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