How to Use embalm in a Sentence

embalm

verb
  • One of the bodies that had not been embalmed was in the garage for about six weeks.
    — CBS News, 12 July 2017
  • Egyptians used it both to season their food and to embalm their dead.
    — Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2017
  • Her body, which was not embalmed, was buried in a wooden coffin.
    — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Her body was buried in a wooden coffin without any embalming in very moist clay.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 May 2023
  • Why had there been a seeming rush to embalm the body, without an autopsy?
    — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The same record also indicated the body had been embalmed for four months.
    — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Now the interesting thing about this screaming man was that he wasn't embalmed.
    — National Geographic, 16 July 2019
  • At the same time, the costs of gasoline, embalming chemicals and staffing have risen.
    — Susan Shain, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • She was not embalmed, and her grave was dug by hand by her sisters, said the website of the monastic order.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 27 May 2023
  • Their once pliable playthings are now embalmed, lifeless.
    — Theo Belci, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • Some of the substances were not commonly used for embalming in Egypt at the time.
    — Popular Science, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Her organs were removed, embalmed, and bundled in bags placed in her chest cavity.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Lancaster was buried in a simple wooden coffin and was not embalmed.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 29 May 2023
  • Rather than embalming the decade, this show revitalizes it.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • People complain the man’s work is chilly — but this film is practically embalmed.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 July 2021
  • Everything here is sealed off, self-contained, almost embalmed.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Used to embalm and preserve bodies in morgues, some butchers use formalin to keep meat from going off.
    — Julien Chongwang, Quartz Africa, 7 July 2020
  • Some funeral homes, for example, have a rule that a body must be embalmed for public viewing.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
  • Some funeral homes, for example, have a rule that a body must be embalmed for public viewing.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
  • Ever the enigma, while her choice to embalm may be traditional, her last look will be anything but.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 29 July 2021
  • The lawsuit also claims that Smith’s body was not embalmed correctly and the vault or casket was not sealed.
    — Christopher Harress | [email protected], al.com, 4 July 2019
  • Egyptians were embalmed during a process that often lasted 70 days.
    — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2016
  • Other substances identified were used to embalm certain parts of the body, researchers said.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • So the concerning aspects of burying the dead are the embalming fluid.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
  • After his death, his unclaimed body was embalmed with arsenic and displayed by an undertaker for a fee.
    — Dave Quinn, People.com, 7 May 2025
  • The remains were intact even though the body had not been embalmed and was in a wooden coffin, according to the news outlet.
    — Raja Razek, CNN, 26 May 2023
  • Rigsby’s body had been poorly embalmed and was at least partially decomposed.
    — Sofie Buckminster, semafor.com, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Ed was interred in a Packard from the 1940s, embalmed in the passenger seat.
    — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2020
  • While Salomon pointedly embalms many of her images of trees, this picture is swirlingly alive.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
  • Crump said that in addition to the wallet, Peretti found that Wade had not been embalmed before being buried.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023

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