sarcophagus

How To Use sarcophagus In A Sentence

• During her studies she worked with the British Museum examining the paints used on the sarcophagus of an Egyptian mummy to find out how the ancients had created a new colour.
• Radioactive remnants of the failed reactor linger inside the so-called sarcophagus, a 24-story concrete and steel encasement hastily erected after the accident. Stunning Photos Of Chernobyl 25 Years Later
• Athletic Skill gain rate from sleeping in the Sarcophagus of Kings has been reduced.
• Inside they found a black-grayish basalt mummiform sarcophagus coated with a layer of earth and potsherds affixed to the lid with plaster. Czech Egyptologists Open Shaft Tomb, Identify Royal Burial at Abusir
• Laurin Dodd, an American engineer who is directing the new containment project, described the condition of the existing shelter, often called the sarcophagus. World Pledges $780 Million for New Shell for Chernobyl Nuclear Plant
• The former has the classically draped general rising from his sarcophagus, while around him the pyramid of Eternity crumbles and the figure of Time breaks his scythe.
• The sarcophagus clutched something in his hands, too, something small, bonelike, and curved. GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL
• Beneath it he created his own rose-coloured granite sarcophagus, and tended the flowers around it daily.
• Pl. LXVI -- the lower drawing on the right hand side -- the sarcophagus is shown between the columns, and above the entablature is a plinth on which the horse stands. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2
• Catherine of Siena enshrined in the artistic golden sarcophagus which has been admired by succeeding generations of her clients.