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Example sentences for "mummy"

Lexicographically close words:
mummies; mummification; mummified; mummifying; mumming; mumper; mumping; mumps; mumsey; mun
  1. If he died before that age, and of natural causes, he was embalmed as a mummy and interred in the Serapeion with great pomp.

  2. Here is Mummy Hall; so called because several mummies have been found seated in recesses of the rock.

  3. A mummy found here in 1813, was the body of a woman five feet ten inches high, wrapped in half-dressed deer skins, on which were rudely drawn white veins and leaves.

  4. From Mummy Hall you pass into Gothic Avenue, where the resemblance to Gothic architecture very perceptibly increases.

  5. That means there must be something for Mummy in it.

  6. His complexion is of all shades of brown, from a light tan to a dark, dingy mummy colour.

  7. The skin of the gorilla is a dull black or mummy colour over the body, but that of the face is a jet black, quite smooth and soft.

  8. In one there had been found an unopened mummy with an inscription upon the outer case setting forth that it contained the body of the daughter of the Governor of the city in the days of Tuthmosis.

  9. They replied that both the ring and the mummy had been sent to the Boulak Museum at Cairo.

  10. The authorities are of opinion that the man was bearing away the mummy with some idea of selling it to a private collector, but that he was struck down in the very act by long-standing disease of the heart.

  11. Do you know," said the first speaker, "one could almost believe that by the continual contemplation of mummies the chap has become half a mummy himself?

  12. It was clear to John Vansittart Smith that this mummy had never been unswathed before.

  13. So Doris was very angry, because she had to stay at home and take care of her five brothers; and the only happy thing that she had to think about was that Mummy would be home next week.

  14. Her father was dead, and her mummy was rather poor, as she had five other children besides Doris.

  15. Even her mummy tried to keep away from her, because she was nursing Cuthbert, who was so infectious; and she had had strict orders when she arrived at Mother Hubbard's not to go inside her house.

  16. Next to her mummy and daddy, Marian loved Uncle Joe better than anybody in the whole world.

  17. But Mummy believed her, and Daddy believed her; and I'll tell you another thing that happened.

  18. Then she knocked at the door, and next moment Mummy was hugging her as tight as tight.

  19. As for Uncle Joe, Mummy sent him a message by a carrier who passed near his house.

  20. For Mummy had to put on an overall and begin to nurse Cuthbert, and a big sheet was hung across the bedroom door, and Mummy had to sprinkle it with carbolic acid, and of course Marian wasn't allowed to go to school.

  21. Percy, their son, and his sweetheart Agnes were the next to knock at the front door; and they had hardly stepped inside before Doris and her mummy arrived with the five boys.

  22. When they came back Mummy was stooping over the Christmas-tree, fixing candles to its slender twigs.

  23. Old Miss Hubbard was coming, and so was Uncle Joe, and Mr Parker was coming with him; and Doris's mummy was coming with Doris and her five brothers; and Beardy Ned was bringing little Liz.

  24. She must have dreamed it too, for next morning when Mummy made her bed it wasn't there.

  25. Doris hated it too, and she hated this particular November more than any other that she could recall, because it had rained and rained and rained, and because her mummy was so ill that she had had to go to hospital.

  26. At Thinis there was the mummy of Anhuri in its tomb, at Mendes the mummy of Osiris, at Heliopolis that of Tumu.

  27. The gods died; each nome possessed the mummy and the tomb of its dead deity.

  28. Here is a mummy coffin, whose hieroglyphics demonstrate that the ancient Egyptians had a conception of hell and heaven, and a belief in the immortality of the soul.

  29. Here on exhibition are the magnificent jewels found on the mummy of Queen Aoh-Hotep, the mother of the first king of the XVIII.

  30. The Cleopatra whose mummy is preserved in the British Museum was a member of the Theban Archon family.

  31. Johnson has written; "the scene in which Woodward was directly and apparently ridiculed by the introduction of a mummy and a crocodile, disgusted the audience, and the performance was driven off the stage with general condemnation.

  32. At the head of this article you see a mummy as it appears when it has been embalmed and wrapped in its bandages.

  33. Illustration] A mummy is not a very pretty thing to look at; but, considered properly, it is certainly interesting.

  34. In many cases the mummy was not buried at all, but kept in the house of the family, so that the friends and relatives could always have it with them.

  35. When poor mummy thinks, you know, that Nanda might have had them--!

  36. Try to remember your other name, my sweet; then I can take you safe home to mummy and nurse.

  37. Mummy minds Baba now, and Baba can't remember her other name.

  38. So in that barge I travelled to Thebes like a great noble, or a royal mummy being borne to burial.

  39. They were a mighty multitude who bore with them the coffin and the mummy of their prophet, a man of their blood, Vizier, it is reported, to that Pharaoh who welcomed them to Egypt hundreds of years before.

  40. Whether it was really the mummy or the Marsh King I know not.

  41. They make a mummy of him, and stuff him with spices.

  42. Here you are, you see, mummy cats--don't they look comical all stuck up in a row there?

  43. I don't see what they'd want with a mummy crocodile, do you?

  44. He told Mummy she must ask you, because-- MRS.

  45. The one Mummy says you're next door to--you must see him sometimes!

  46. A small passage-way gave entrance to the vault and when this passage was closed with a heavy slab of granite the mummy was safe from all intrusion.

  47. In this way a low artificial hill was made which protected the mummy against wild animals and robbers.

  48. On top of the actual grave where the mummy rested, he constructed a pile of bricks which rose several hundred feet into the air.

  49. It is perfectly natural for a man to stoop down over the edge of a precipice to gather the flowers that are growing in some cranny in the cliff; and it is as natural for him to topple over, and be smashed to a mummy at the bottom.

  50. We cloak our sins from ourselves with many wrappings, as they swathe a mummy in voluminous folds.

  51. Oh no, I don't want mummy to know," said Mabel.

  52. Mummy dear, do you like having tea with me all alone?

  53. Mummy can't be losing her reason over Elma's being ill," she said.

  54. This isn't humour on my part, mummy dear," she said.

  55. He says, Mr. Smith, that he thinks it came from the mummy case.

  56. Strozza, knowing Sir Lionel to be absent, locked himself in here to rifle the mummy case, for Croxted, entering by way of the window, found the key on the inside.

  57. It contained the mummy of some notable person who flourished under Meneptah II; and Sir Lionel told me that a number of valuable ornaments and jewels probably were secreted amongst the wrappings.

  58. All amongst the rubbish on the floor a big Egyptian mummy case was lying on its side, and face downwards, with his arms thrown across it, lay Sir Lionel Barton.

  59. He did not reckon on the mummy case being overturned, and Kwee's part was to remove the plug with the aid of the string--after Sir Lionel had been suffocated.

  60. He bent farther forward, catching at a piece of twine, and out of the mummy case pulled a rubber stopper or "cork.

  61. It appears that he opened the mummy case on the spot--these priests were of royal line, and are buried in the valley of Biban-le-Moluk.

  62. You could go to the brink of eternity so far as Australia is concerned and yet meet an animated mummy of a swagman who will talk of going "out back.

  63. Or shall I make that mummy speak for you?

  64. Suddenly the Pasteur in tones that rang like a trumpet, cried out: "She seems to hesitate, this mummy of yours, Madame.

  65. In a corner of the room also stood an unwrapped mummy in a glass case.

  66. Still poised upon the fragments of the mummy he lifted the point of the umbrella to receive the charge as it came, and taking advantage of Madame's temporary paralysis of speech, went on: "Hearken!

  67. A curious recollection rose in his mind of the head of a mummy after the Pasteur had broken it off, rolling along the floor in the flat at Lucerne.

  68. It is an awfully discouraging business," Page wrote, "to undertake to prove to a mummy that it is a mummy.

  69. These have always been known as the "Mummy letters.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mummy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ashes; biscuit; body; bone; bones; brown; cadaver; carcass; carrion; clay; color; corpse; cracker; dam; dead; deceased; departed; dust; earth; mammy; mother; mummification; mummy; parchment; pigment; relics; remains; shrivel; skeleton; stepmother; stick; stiff; welter; wilt; wither; clay; color; corpse; cracker; dam; dead; deceased; departed; dust; earth; mammy; mother; mummification; mummy; parchment; pigment; relics; remains; shrivel; skeleton; stepmother; stick; stiff; welter; wilt; wither