How to Use mummify in a Sentence

mummify

verb
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  • Why was the hand mummified, but not the rest of the body?
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 May 2018
  • If the Ducks don’t play much better, Utah will mummify them.
    — John Canzano | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2019
  • On Sunday night, Brady stood at a lectern with his right arm mummified.
    — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Instead, they are forced to stay stock still, while the bees mummify them in their own armoured shell.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2011
  • The remains of cats have been found mummified in Egypt, in Viking graves and in various sites in the Mediterranean.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 19 June 2017
  • Experts say the bodies likely were mummified because of the climate in the area, The Sun added.
    — Fox News, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Through the summer of 2002, John Hervert cut open the stomachs of rotting or mummified Sonoran pronghorn corpses in the desert.
    — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The remains of Khnummose (which may have been mummified) were found next to those of a woman who may have been his wife.
    — Owen Jarus Live Science Contributor, Fox News, 22 June 2017
  • All three of the bodies were partially mummified, Barnes told the Sun.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • A few of them died within their dens and, through a rare process of being buried and then frozen, became mummified.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2019
  • The outside of the body appears intact, if shrunken and mummified.
    — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • For more than 3,000 years, the Chinchorro mummified their dead.
    — Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • His body was taken to Cairo, mummified and remained there for years before being brought to Iran.
    — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Tamut was mummified with a large sheet-metal falcon ornament and a scarab over what was once her heart.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2020
  • His body was taken to Cairo, mummified and held for years before returning to Iran.
    — Jon Gambrell, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Modern-day people in Papua New Guinea still mummify the deceased.
    — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The skin near the back was also mummified and embedded with five vertebrae pieces.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2018
  • Reduce the incidence of dry rot, which mummifies stored potatoes, by keeping the fleshy roots at 55 to 60 degrees.
    — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Thousands of years after his death, a group of hikers found the victim’s mummified body emerging from a melting glacier.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 22 June 2018
  • Nesyamun was mummified and entombed in a coffin inscribed with hieroglyphs, mainly texts from the Book of the Dead.
    — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Despite this, being a cat in ancient Egypt had its drawbacks: Millions of them were killed and mummified as sacrifices to the gods.
    — Jerry A. Coyne, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • In a remote area of Indonesia, villagers mummify, dress, feed and even sleep beside their dead.
    — Libby Copeland, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Five beds made out of stone were discovered still standing inside the room, which would have been used to mummify the most sacred animals.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC News, 27 May 2023
  • Joanna Rogers' mummified remains were found, like Baldwin's, inside a suitcase at the city garbage dump.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The remains were on a hillside, partially mummified, the clothes removed.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2016
  • In Mexico, mummified babies and children were once revered, and people would hold parties and games for them.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Morales said the bodies were essentially mummified, cooked by the extreme heat.
    — Sonia Perez D., chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
  • Blindfolded teams guess scents and flavors, the grandkids are mummified in toilet paper fashions, and toys race across plank oak floors.
    — R. Daniel Foster, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • In 2009, however, CT scans revealed that Ötzi’s stomach had been pushed upwards as his body mummified.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 13 July 2018
  • And to think that the pharaohs buried here, as well as their wives, siblings, children, babies, courtiers, scribes, pets, had all been mummified, a 70-day process necessary for the contentment of the spirit in the afterlife.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 Sep. 2014

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