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.

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 Meanings and Examples of TOMB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tomb
 n.  a place for the burial of a corpse, especially beneath the ground
Classic Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
1  Beyond the tomb there is nothing but equal nothingness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
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
4  He was searching that vast tomb.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
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
6  It seemed as though it were a spirit which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the tomb.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
7  Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW
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.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
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...
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
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.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
12  This destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the tomb.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
13  True love is as luminous as the dawn and as silent as the tomb.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW
14  Marius fixed his despairing eyes on that dismal house, which was as black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—MARIUS
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.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS
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.