pyres
Example Sentences
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The funeral pyres were extinguished as the sun set.
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
The coffins were placed on pyres newly built from bricks and dressed with flowers and black and white decorative cloth.
From Reuters • Oct. 11, 2022
Once gathered into towering pyres, the vegetation is then set ablaze, sending lung- and heart-aggravating haze across the valley.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 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
