Examples of pyre in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web As carts filled with bodies roll toward a mass pyre, Schindler spots the girl among the dead. — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022 Under Gajewski’s hands, the orchestra surged now and then from candlelit prayer to roaring pyre. — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022 The family travelled to Tibet to retrieve and cremate the body in a pyre at base camp. — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2022 His blackened execution pyre stands in a barren field, a leitmotif driven like a stake through the heart of the film. — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021 Her bones weighed 50 percent more than the average urn, indicating that her remains were carefully collected after her cremation on a funeral pyre. — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2021 The bone weight within her urn was 50% higher than the average urn, meaning the cremated remains of the woman and her twins were carefully collected after being burned on a pyre. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 July 2021 Each image of a funeral pyre transmitted by an English-language news outlet strengthens the hand of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). — Shareen Joshi, CNN, 2 June 2021 Finally, Anupam was called to light his father's pyre. — Star Tribune, 23 May 2021 See More

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