How to Use cremate in a Sentence

cremate

verb

• He wants to be cremated when he dies.
• He was cremated back in March and is housed in a small pine box.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• He will be cremated and put out to sea, which was his love.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 18 Aug. 2019
• Huey was cremated and brought back home to be with her husband to watch over her.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• The friend waited over three days to cremate his mother.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2021
• The family travelled to Tibet to retrieve and cremate the body in a pyre at base camp.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2022
• So is their decision to cremate Jackie’s body since the ground is frozen.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• If a body will be cremated, will the ashes be scattered?
  — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
• The Tripathis cremated Sunil a few days after he was found.
  — Elizabeth Koh, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• Now the hospital is asking the families to sign a form to cremate the deceased.
  — Arkansas Online, 10 Apr. 2022
• Because the ground was too hard to be dug up, the team opts to cremate her, though Shauna doesn’t let anyone take Jackie’s clothes.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 30 Mar. 2023
• The unused body parts are cremated and returned to the family at no cost.
  — Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com, 10 June 2019
• If not, a trip down Death Road, to the wealthy undertaker, who cremates programs.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• Soon, Amy hopes, the remains will be returned to the family so they can be cremated.
  — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2019
• Her organs were donated and her body was cremated at the time.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 15 May 2023
• His remains were then to be cremated and placed at a memorial park in Gwangju, southeast of Seoul.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• One was cremated and the other was not, per the families’ wishes.
  — Isabel Rosales, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• His parents were cremated, and their ashes are held in a Hong Kong temple.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• His body was cremated and in the spring of 1988, just before opening day, some his remains were scattered by friends at Wrigley Field.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
• When he was cremated, half of his ashes were given to his widow and half to Ms. Stewart.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2023
• Rows of funeral pyres set up in parks and other open spaces are being used to cremate the overflow of corpses.
  — NBC News, 4 May 2021
• The final sequence had the girls attempting to cremate Jackie’s long-frozen corpse.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• The family plans to cremate the remains and will bury him alongside his mother in Washington when the time comes, Shute said.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2022
• That anger is the reason Rice had Tamir’s body cremated and keeps his ashes at home in an urn, rather than choosing to spread them anywhere in Ohio.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2019
• Author Rani Neutill writes about the pyres and her own journey back to cremate her mother five years ago.
  — Madhushree Ghosh, Longreads, 12 May 2021
• Ms Heath, who died of covid-19, will be cremated as soon as her daughter’s self-isolation is over.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• In the coming days, the family plans to cremate Andrea and the children together.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 23 Mar. 2022
• Scott's body remained at the funeral home, where it would be cremated.
  — David Tarrant, Dallas News, 20 May 2020
• Senate Bill 27 would require clinics to cremate or bury the remains.
  — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2022
• Lately, Jeet has been volunteering his time to help cremate those who have died from Covid-19.
  — NBC News, 29 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024