sarcophagus - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • include: The museum houses a wealth of fascinating relics including a unique sarcophagus dated around AD 900.
  • make: The terracotta face on the left is from an entire sarcophagus made of fired Nile silt mud.
  • open: If you continue the game by opening the sarcophagus, you will die; there is no way around that.

Adjective modifier

  • ancient: Step back in history as you explore the rock cut tombs and ancient Lycian sarcophagus.
  • large: The luminous trail led toward a large sarcophagus, dominating the oldest part of the graveyard.
  • concrete: Now, like the rest of the facility, the elephant's foot is under the thick concrete sarcophagus.

Modifies a noun

  • lid: The top of the lid is surmounted by a fleur-de-lis shaped flange, this same stylized form makes an appearance on the sarcophagus lid.

Adjective modifier

  • various: Annual water ski records of dynasties contained various sarcophagi.

Noun used with modifier

  • granite: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier consists of a granite sarcophagus with a bronze cover.
  • marble: Here is found the lower part of a marble sarcophagus bearing a picture of Eros.
  • stone: A couple of weeks ago builders on the Spitalfields development north of the City of London came across a stone sarcophagus.
  • limestone: Cemetery: about feddan in size in 1910, including mud brick tombs subsequently burnt, limestone sarcophagus and inscribed elements.

Preposition: of

  • Pharaoh: Of its history, there is mention of it as a herbal preparation in a papyrus taken from the sarcophagus of an Egyptian Pharaoh.

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