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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
Here, slowly being swallowed by vegetation and worn down by time, are gigantic mausoleums, vast underground cisterns, temples, imposing city walls and a breathtaking theater perched, like Machu Picchu, on a hilltop that offers views stretching for miles all around.
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Barry Neild,
CNN Money,
23 Sep. 2025
Callas lost her voice and retreated to her mausoleum-like apartment on the Avenue Georges Mandel in Paris’ posh sixteenth arrondissement.
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.
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Book Marks
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
In April, a special agent in the Wisconsin Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation, got a search warrant to search Kemmer's crypt at the Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum for bones, hair and teeth to search for DNA evidence to move the case forward.
The company is on track to add thousands of AARP members to its digital vault this year, with the expectation of more than doubling its number of users by 2026.
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Laura Layden,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
Once the coffin was brought into the chapel with an honor guard, the archbishop blessed their remains, and each pallbearer was given a box to carry to the burial vault for interment.
Firemen in their command center calm the fears of the locals who call in, law enforcement tracks down tomb robbers, while in the port of Torre Annunziata, Syrian tankers unload Ukrainian grain.
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Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025
Research on ancient Egypt is largely biased toward the elite, whose spectacular tombs, monuments, and artifacts have been the dominant focus.
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.
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