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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sepulchre.

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Examples

  • Milton wrote a few years later, in 1630, how Shakespeare, "sepulchred" in "the monument" of his writings, in such pomp doth lie,

    Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892

  • Note that we have entered the realm of the dead -- not just the cold, but the "room smelled like a vault of a sepulchred Pharaoh in the Valley of Kings."

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • Desolate, perhaps—but is there not something sublime in such sepulchred ruins?

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • "Woe the worth we have sepulchred!" now is the cry all;

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • With all this, some daft natives lingered about the site of the town of Taal till the last, and two men were sepulchred in the Government

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • The Brook Farmers have nearly all joined the congregation of the beyond, but they are sepulchred in the four quarters of the globe.

    My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears

  • Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

    Milton As An Empire Builder 1909

  • The incident just passed, the woman's hand on mine, the woman's words, though from her they were nothing to me, had yet touched and unlocked those impulses which, until now, had been so sternly repressed, barred down, sepulchred and sealed.

    To-morrow? Victoria Cross 1910

  • In due time the ring of metal and sepulchred voices rumbled in the ground beneath the besieged.

    The Crisis — Volume 07 Winston Churchill 1909

  • In due time the ring of metal and sepulchred voices rumbled in the ground beneath the besieged.

    The Crisis — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

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