Examples from literature

• A shower of glass from the shattered windowpane fell over the floor and seats, and a bullet embedded itself in the woodwork of an upper berth. 
• Crack! came a report and a bullet embedded itself in the stout wood of their own boat. 
• In the center of this masonry is embedded very thick iron plate. 
• Large beams, embedded here and there in the brickwork or masonry, bound the whole together, and strengthened the structure. 
• The pineal gland is a peculiar mass of nervous substance which is embedded in the human brain, in a position near the middle of the skull almost directly above the extreme top of the spinal column.