columbarium

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Recent Examples of columbarium Her remains are stored in one of a series of ornate lockers in the columbarium of a Buddhist temple in Hsinchu, second from the bottom, just a few feet away from my uncle, her son. Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024 Next to the chapel is a columbarium, a repository for the ashes of select members of the congregation. Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024 The challenges of life at Community First In the middle of Community First is a memorial garden with the ashes of dozens of residents who have died, their names etched into a granite columbarium. Lucy Tompkins Eli Durst, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024 His grave is near the path dividing the southernmost section of the cemetery from the columbarium wall, where the urns are housed. David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023 See All Example Sentences for columbarium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbarium
Noun
  • Outside the mausoleum’s walls were about 20 burials in a variety of styles, officials said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Venus, Saturn and Jupiter stood in a line above the mausoleum’s sandstone pillars.
    Nicholas J. R. White Kat Hill, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In the crypt beneath the main building, a few feet to the left and above the memorial stone for Meazza, is one commemorating Herbert Kilpin.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • To keep you on your toes, Max opens the film with a bang; following a trail of blood on what looks to be floor of a cave or crypt, the camera finds a frightening demonic creature gnawing away at a human body.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Most of its details are still hidden away in a secret Koenigsegg vault while awaiting patent protection.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Apr. 2025
  • After infusion, the THC oil will be returned to the secured vault.
    Phil Rockrohr, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • At Dark Universe, a land that harnesses Universal’s horror history, a ride called Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment takes guests deep into the catacombs of Frankenstein Manor, where Dr. Victoria Frankenstein conducts experiments.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The plan calls for a portion of the catacombs to be restored and exposed, creating an accessible pathway to the past that leads into a new outdoor plaza.
    Justin L. Mack, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Who determined which Egyptians were buried in the tombs?
    Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
  • Other popular tombs include those of singer Edith Piaf, composer Fredéric Chopin, writer Marcel Proust and novelist and playwriter Honoré de Balzac.
    Heller McAlpin, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Thousands of homes and a sprawl of entire neighborhoods were transformed into outdoor charnel houses.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Thousands of homes and a sprawl of entire neighborhoods were transformed into outdoor charnel houses.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The audit also noted a Jewish cemetery in Waterbury that was vandalized with more than 12 gravestones desecrated.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Concord, South Dakota, has a paint store, a cemetery and four waterfowl protection areas.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Funeral home director accused of taking grieving pet parents' money, dumping animals in landfill Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday says more than 6,000 pet owners were given ashes that did not belong to their pets after paying for burial services.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • But in the decades since, various construction projects have revealed smaller satellite burial groups of about 10 people, according to the release.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2025

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“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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