columbarium

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Recent Examples of columbarium But on a dreary Sunday afternoon last fall, bouquets of white roses and blue hydrangeas enlivened the Spanish marble columbarium where Drakeo the Ruler is interred. Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025 Regent Barbara Weitz suggested building a columbarium under the football field where fans could have their ashes inurned as part of Memorial Stadium’s next renovation. Jayna Bardahl, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024 In 2019, the group bought a columbarium with 96 niches to inter ashes for other kinds of service dogs. Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 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 See All Example Sentences for columbarium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbarium
Noun
  • The rituals also include his visits early next week to Ise, Japan’s top Shinto shrine, the mausoleum of the mythical first emperor Jinmu in Nara, as well as that of his late great-grandfather, wartime emperor Hirohito, in the Tokyo suburbs.
    Mari Yamaguchi, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The phone box has an important connection to its location, as the man who designed the K2 model of classic British phone boxes, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, drew inspiration from the Dulwich Picture Gallery's mausoleum when creating its unique shape.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • He is buried in a crypt at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery in Justice, not far from his parents and two sisters.
    Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Wine enthusiasts will appreciate Cas da Mata’s underground wine crypt, capable of storing up to 1,800 bottles.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The vault-like room with its large steel access doors held all of the recovered pieces—about 40 percent of the total orbiter—and was a departure from what NASA had done after its previous spaceflight disasters.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Faulí showed me where Gaudí had begun building a traditional Gothic rib to support the vault.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Choose Sauternes for golden dessert wines, Arcachon Bay for oysters, and Saint-Émilion’s limestone catacombs.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
  • What’s a place in L.A. that might be comparable to the catacombs?
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • The 2,300-year-old tomb had two rooms — an entrance chamber and a burial chamber — originally connected with a double door, archaeologists said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The animal was originally a zhènmùshòu, a monumental, fierce, lion-like tomb guardian from the Tang Dynasty, the authors speculate.
    Amy Woodyatt, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Thousands of homes and a sprawl of entire neighborhoods were transformed into outdoor charnel houses.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
  • For the Himalayan monks of the early teen centuries, the ideal setting for initiation was a charnel ground, where people left their dead to be eaten by wild animals.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Stoughton man Camryn Guillaume was regularly dealing narcotics in a Randolph cemetery, police said.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In Florida, the Heritage Monitoring Scouts visit archaeological sites, including cemeteries, forts and mills, to record any impacts after extreme weather events.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The study team investigated 54 crouching burials that had previously been found at 11 archaeological sites.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The researchers concluded that many bodies were treated with prolonged smoke-drying over fire before burial, a practice the researchers believe is similar to mortuary traditions recorded among indigenous groups in Australia and the New Guinea Highlands.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025

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