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Recent Examples of urnThe remains appeared weathered and pieces of zip ties and a broken urn were also found at the site, the outlet reported.—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025 According to Texas designer Stephanie Brown of Saint Louise Design, a fern in an antique urn is undoubtedly a Southern trademark.—Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025 Inside that home, Anjelita built a small altar around Ayelli’s urn as a memorial to her unborn child, who her three sons — ages 9, 6 and 3 — will never meet.—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025 Polos, walking home from the theatre late at night, still wearing his makeup, ashes in a cardboard urn in his backpack.—Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for urn
Cerussi and Donovan put the nail in the coffin with five seconds remaining in the first half by connecting for the second time for 34 yards to essentially finish things off with a dominating 34-7 halftime lead.
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Brian Fabry,
Boston Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
Israel has received a coffin carrying the body of a deceased hostage, the prime minister’s office said in a statement late Friday.
The report, obtained by the Star-Telegram through a public records request, mentions two Facebook posts by Jones, but notes that none of the people captured on video dropping off the casket match her physical description.
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Amanda McCoy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Oct. 2025
The lantern can make a skeleton pop out of the Forsaken Lake, activate audio effects at the Blind Tiger speakeasy front door, bring a terrifying spider tree to life, launch a newscast at a Gore-ing ‘20s newsstand and open the lid on a glowing casket.
Solomon peppers his story with generational resentments and art-world posturing, while Soderbergh films the interiors of McKellen’s English townhouse like the inner workings of a sarcophagus.
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
8 Sep. 2025
Archaeologists were unsure of what the entire scene depicted until the sarcophagus was handed over to the IAA's conservation team — who assembled the fragments.
While lying in state, the coffin was placed not on an elevated bier, but facing the pews.
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Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2025
Inside the 16th-century basilica, his casket won't be put on an elevated bier—as was the case with past popes—but will just be placed on the main alta, simply facing the pews.
With 2,000-year-old ancient Roman roads and Etruscan tombs, grand villas, papal palaces, charming medieval towns, rolling countryside, and unforgettable food and wine, Lazio has something for every traveler.
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Fulvio De Bonis,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Oct. 2025
Khentika's tomb is a mastaba, one of the few in Egypt to have a curse inscribed on its facade.
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