"tomb" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some of the graves were above-ground tombs with heavy lids and flowery religious epitaphs.
- Especially grand above-ground tombs are called mausoleums.
- Big above-ground tomb down the centre walk to the right, has a little wrought-iron fence around it.
- The word mausoleum has now come to be used generically for an above-ground tomb.
- So New Orleans cemeteries are filled with mausoleums, row upon row of above-ground tombs.
- The above-ground tombs offer hiding places for muggers.
- A parish committee convened to resolve the dispute was willing to make an exception for the singer, with an above-ground sarcophagus-style tomb.
- Permanent storage in an above-ground tomb or mausoleum (also referred to as immurement)
- Looking left, right, or straight ahead, he spotted scores of major mausoleums, chapels, family vaults, and above-ground tombs.
- The government buried many in mass graves, some above-ground tombs were forced open so bodies could be stacked inside, and others were burned.
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