pyres
Example Sentences
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They cremated their dead on wood funeral pyres for three days, to purify the bodies of the deceased and transition their souls back into the Earth.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2024
Grieving survivors have gathered around funeral pyres to send off 13 people who died in the 6.4-magnitude quake.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2023
The 13 bodies were carried on Sunday to the banks of the Bheri River and placed on pyres made of stacked wood.
From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 2023
Along the great crescent sweep of the river, smoke billowed from the pyres that burn night and day.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022
He shuddered, thinking of funeral pyres burning on the surface of the water, of red lights in the deep.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
