Sample Sentences forpyre (editor-reviewed)
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While cremation is not uncommon in the western world, open air funeral pyres are typically illegal.pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials
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In 1829 India banned the Hindu custom of a widow's suicide on her husband's funeral pyre.
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There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up. (source)pyre = a pile of wood
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The soldiers of the common man may toss the banners of the old regime on the victory pyre, but soon enough trumpets will blare and pomp will take its place at the side of the throne, having once again secured its dominion over history and kings. (source)pyre = a fire intentionally started from a stack of wood or other burnable material
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As the chains were wound over their body at the stake, and a flame set to the pyre, (source)pyre = stacked wood (to burn a body)
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She was taken to a pyre where she was wound in a sheet and placed up on a platform built from sticks. (source)
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After claiming his body, the club had hauled it to the Indiana Dunes on Lake Michigan, where members erected an immense pyre. (source)pyre = stacked wood (to burn a body)
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Bog gases flared up in green pyres in the distance, as if in sympathy with Emma's light.† (source)
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SHE WAS LYING ON A BURNING PYRE, HOT COALS BENEATH her back.† (source)
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He wept as he told us that he literally had to reach down into the graves, lift out and carry the decomposing bodies to the burning pyres.† (source)
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Don't they put anything on your funeral pyre?† (source)
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The corpse detail carried the bodies to a clearing outside, placed them on pyres of wood from ruined houses, burned them, put some of the ashes in envelopes intended for exposed X-ray plates, marked the envelopes with the names of the deceased, and piled them, neatly and respectfully, in stacks in the main office.† (source)
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And I found the remains of my father in the funeral pyre.† (source)
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They were there to see pyres and flaming wheels, thousands of flags dipped in salute, thousands of uniformed mourners.† (source)
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Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones.† (source)
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A picture rose before him of the red glow of the pyres mirrored on a wine-dark, slumbrous sea, battling torches whirling sparks across the darkness, and thick, fetid smoke rising toward the watchful sky.† (source)
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