urns

plural of urn

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for urns
Noun
  • The Ferryman crams the Warren home with upright coffins filled with his former victims.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Too often, the radioactive material landed in crematoriums and coffins.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Average caskets run between $2,000 and $5,000 in the United States, but some made of mahogany, bronze or copper can cost upward of $10,000, according to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Consumer Advice department.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The group staged a mock funeral procession in January 2021, with doctors carrying caskets on their shoulders, representing 384 people who had died in the nation’s smallest state of an overdose the previous year.
    Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Before the most recent excavation, archaeologists had found 17 of these tombs.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Roskilde’s stately cathedral stands solemn and proud—its royal tombs steeped in centuries of candlelit reverence—while chalk-white Møns Klint plunges into the deep Baltic blue, where fossil hunters comb the shore and peregrine falcons wheel overhead.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Urns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urns. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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