Usage examples of "tumba" in Spanish with translation to English

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Está cavando su propia tumba. He's digging his own grave.

Cuando su líder murió, pusieron su cuerpo en una gran tumba. When their leader died, they placed his body in a large tomb.

Visitamos la tumba de nuestro padre. We visited our father's grave.

Lo que se aprende en la cuna, se lleva a la tumba. What is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb.

Ellos lo enterraron en su tumba. They buried him in his grave.

De la cuna a la tumba. From the cradle to the grave.

Visité la tumba de mi padre. I've visited my father's grave.

He visitado la tumba de mi padre. I visited my father's grave.

Ella se llevó sus secretos a la tumba. She took her secrets to the grave.

Incluso los muertos vivientes acaban volviendo a la tumba. Even the walking-dead eventually return to the grave.

Una corona de flores ha sido puesta en la tumba. An offering of flowers had been placed at the grave.

El secreto quedó sepultado en la tumba del famoso filósofo. The secret remained buried in the grave of the famous philosopher.

Puedes estar de fiesta toda la noche, ¡pero vuelve a tu tumba antes del amanecer! You may feast all night, but return to your grave before dawn!

Dicen que, en el día de Colón, el fantasma de Cristóbal Colón sale de su tumba y vuela alrededor del mundo, castigando a los chicos y chicas malos que no creen en él. They say that on Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus's ghost rises up from its grave and flies around the world, punishing the bad boys and girls who don't believe in Christopher Columbus.

Tus crímenes profanaron las tumbas de tus ancestros. Your crimes have desecrated your ancestor's graves.

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