How do you use the word "tomb" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "tomb": What is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb. I wonder who's buried in that tomb.

Tomb Meaning

/tuːm/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.

nounA pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.

Sentence Examples

What is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb.

I wonder who's buried in that tomb.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

grave

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The dead king's body was kept in a cold, dark, and silent ____.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The archaeologists discovered an ancient ____ that contained several beautiful artifacts from a long-lost civilization today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Displaced native Old English þrūh. The verb is from Middle English tomben.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"As one dead in the bottom of a tomb." — c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

"I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb." — 1912, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, published 1880, Book III, chapter 4:

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