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Meanings of sepulcher in English

Portuguese
sepulcro
Catalan
sepultura

A chamber that is used as a grave.

sepulcro

A place (commonly marked with a headstone) where one or more people are buried (usually in a coffin underneath the ground).

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Examples for "sepulchre"
Examples for "sepulchre"
1
Their care went further still; they sealed the door of the sepulchre.
Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus
2
The sepulchre of old Rome is the new capital of united Italy.
Don Orsino
3
In this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed.
Les Misérables
4
Fenice lies in the sepulchre until the darkness of night came on.
Four Arthurian Romances
5
He was an absolute sepulchre in the swallowing of oppression and ill-usage.
Robert Falconer
1
Then the box was lifted and the work of sepulture went on.
Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
2
The place of his sepulture, however, is still known, and pointed out.
Life of George Washington — Volume 01
3
His body was brought for sepulture to Tyringham church, near Newport Pagnel.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
4
Euripides had his tomb in Africa, but his sepulture in Macedonia.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
5
The body-snatcher was to be punished by death and the lack of sepulture.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
1
He'd assigned her and Shannon to the most recently discovered burial chamber.
Stolen heat
2
I didn't want to choose the site of my own burial chamber.
Nefertiti
3
The burial chamber was still, caught between one moment and the next.
The Good, The Bad, and The Uncanny
4
Within, the darkness hinted at a larger room, perhaps a burial chamber.
Orb Sceptre Throne
5
We will have cleared the entrance to the burial chamber by then.
Land of marvels
Usage of sepulcher in English
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He saw in them the sepulcher of his people's pride and glory.
An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 17...
2
Ebed-melech hung around the sepulcher of his beloved master for many days.
Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)
3
Such an example, from a sepulcher at Ancon, is shown in Fig.
A Study of the Textile Art in Its Relation to the Development of...
4
Charity's good repute became now the whitewash on a sepulcher of corruption.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
5
Finding his way to Joseph's garden, Quintus stands by an empty sepulcher.
An Easter Disciple: The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight
6
Fellow-scholars, this stately Mound is not a sepulcher, it is a monument!
Sketches New and Old
7
The Gospel call stops outside of the door of the sepulcher.
New Tabernacle Sermons
8
I knew that they felt as I felt: the laboratory was a sepulcher!
Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
9
Like the skeletons of long-dead men clawing their way out of a sepulcher.
Phantoms
10
Caim caught her hand and drew her closer to the sepulcher.
Shadow's son
11
Let's go. They ran down into the sepulcher, which was now brightly lit.
Winter’s Tale
12
No other teacher of the East has ever come back from the sepulcher.
An Easter Disciple: The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight
13
Shall man fight for the tomb which devours him, for his eternal sepulcher?
The Promulgation of Universal Peace
14
The lid of the sepulcher had closed and he had slipped from under it.
The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all na...
15
But the world in after years plowed up his sepulcher.
New Tabernacle Sermons
16
His next moment of lucidity came in the cool tiled sepulcher of the bathroom.
The Rhesus Chart
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