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  • noun Plural form of sarcophagus.

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Examples

  • Mummies escape from their sacrophigi (sarcophaguses?) intent on world domination, only to be attacked by gorillas and elephants.

    Robot Reviews: You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • In Haiti, bodies are neither embalmed nor buried, just placed into above-ground concrete sarcophaguses.

    Sociopathic Medicine 2010

  • It seems to me that ancient people put the dead bodies into sarcophaguses where the bodies dematerialized and turned into a kind of energy blobs that were used by living people for various purposes.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • In the dimness, he could make out the stone sarcophaguses of the interred archbishops arrayed in a semicircle around the rough-hewn stone walls of the chamber.

    Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

  • It seems to me that ancient people put the dead bodies into sarcophaguses where the bodies dematerialized and turned into a kind of energy blobs that were used by living people for various purposes.

    They Might Be Giants 2005

  • What do you think theyre going to do, crawl out of their sarcophaguses and change their minds?

    Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

  • Shed gotten so absorbed in the sarcophaguses and mummies and reading about the embalming process that shed completely forgotten about Isabel and her mummy-phobia.

    Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

  • I have plenty of stuff to do at the museum that will help me steer clear of mummies AND their sarcophaguses.

    Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

  • Shed gotten so absorbed in the sarcophaguses and mummies and reading about the embalming process that shed completely forgotten about Isabel and her mummy-phobia.

    Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

  • I have plenty of stuff to do at the museum that will help me steer clear of mummies AND their sarcophaguses.

    Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

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