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Six example sentences with embalm, each labelled with its topic.
Egyptian workshops took seventy days to embalm a pharaoh, packing the remains in natron before the linen wrapping began.
History
Chemists study how ancient resins used to embalm the Egyptian elite came from trade routes hundreds of miles away.
Science
Anatomy departments embalm donated cadavers so that students can work with the same specimen across an entire academic year.
Medicine
Soviet officials chose to embalm Lenin in 1924 so that citizens could file past his body in Red Square for decades.
Politics
State law requires anyone licensed to embalm to log every chemical used, and inspectors review the ledgers each year.
Law
The family funeral home added a second room where staff embalm, since the older facility handled one case a day.
Business
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