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Recent Examples of columbariumBut 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
Children play among headstones, and locals see ornate mausoleums daily on their way to run errands; the graveyards woven into public life as parks and libraries are in other cities.
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Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
State law limits how California’s 256 public cemetery districts can make money, prohibiting them from selling memorial markers or mausoleums and offering mortuary or cremation services.
In Saunders’s afterlife, various spirits join Willie, Lincoln’s eleven-year-old son who has died from typhoid fever, while his father grieves in the crypt.
Offload expiring deals and build up a vault of draft capital to build with in the offseason.
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Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Oct. 2025
Furthermore, when colonizers attempted to burn all evidence of Nkrumah’s time as a revolutionary leader, Hesse snuck his reels out of Ghana, and into a London vault, where the footage has spent decades inside, waiting to be digitized.
Thousands of homes and a sprawl of entire neighborhoods were transformed into outdoor charnel houses.
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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.
The most popular ghost story of this cemetery is that of Rufina Cambaceres, a 19-year-old girl who was laid to rest in 1902 in an impressive art nouveau mausoleum.
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Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
Both sites feature royal cemetery grounds and are located near the ancient city of Memphis in present-day Egypt.
Originally an agricultural town, cemeteries began to take root in Colma after a 1901 ordinance banned new burials within San Francisco’s city limits, a decision driven by limited real estate and a booming population.
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Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
Bereaved families weep at a mass burial held just after the cease-fire.
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