The compact ice appeared on all the lower portions of the glacier, though gray with dirt and stones embedded in it.

A hypocaust lay embedded among them, much broken but recognisable.

In one case I found embedded between two such jagged fragments a piece of remarkably hard impenetrable cement.

I pause to rest me upon a rock embedded on the side of a foothill facing the low river bottom.

The quiet of that derelict, wood-set, weed-embedded suburbfor all the inhabitants had taken refuge in London at the outbreak of yesterday's conflictbecame instantly impressive.

Up to this time the machine had required no attention, but just beyond Otis, while stopping to inquire the way, we discovered a rusty round nail embedded to the head in the right rear tire.

Death cut his labours short in 1514, and only a small portion of his work remains embedded at the present day within the mightier masses raised beneath Buonarroti's cupola.

In technical usage or particular phrases a former sense of a word may be embedded like a fossil.