TOMB in a Sentence
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94 example sentences for TOMB, such as:
1. He was searching that vast tomb.
2. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb.
3. The emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone.
4. Beyond the tomb there is nothing but equal nothingness.
5. There are no inscriptions or markings to identify the tombs.
2. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb.
3. The emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone.
4. Beyond the tomb there is nothing but equal nothingness.
5. There are no inscriptions or markings to identify the tombs.
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Meanings and Examples of TOMB
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tomb
n. a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
Classic Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
1 Beyond the tomb there is nothing but equal nothingness.
2 He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.
3 Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a tomb.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
4 He was searching that vast tomb.
5 And the galleys now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
6 It seemed as though it were a spirit which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the tomb.
7 Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living.
8 Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word might be inscribed on his tomb: Acarus, which signifies, a worm of the earth; this was done.
9 He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
10 He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
11 Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering there, and life was palpitating there.
12 This destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the tomb.
13 True love is as luminous as the dawn and as silent as the tomb.
14 Marius fixed his despairing eyes on that dismal house, which was as black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty.
15 He wished to die; the opportunity presented itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness offered him the key.
Example Sentence:
1 The emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone.
2 A broad, five-yard-wide road leads to the tomb entrance, which is guarded by two headless sphinxes.
3 There are no inscriptions or markings to identify the tombs.