cremate

Example Sentences

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A woman who was believed to be dead and about to be cremated at the Wat Rat Prakhong Tham Buddhist temple in the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, has been found alive by staff.

From BBC

Ladd was cremated on Nov. 10, a week after her death, the death certificate reportedly said.

From Los Angeles Times

Sporting Times journalist Reginald Shirley Brooks wrote a satirical article stating that English cricket had died and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia".

From Barron's

But then Scott Michaels, the founder of Dearly Departed Tours, discovered that her cremated remains were interred in a rose garden under her married name, Elsa Lanchester Laughton.

From BBC

"I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried like this and have my little bones taken out," she says as her daughter runs around the graveyard and her father-in-law sips a beer.

From Barron's