How to Use crematorium in a Sentence

crematorium

noun
  • The crematorium wasn’t functioning that day, and their job was to set fire to the corpses in the open air.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
  • In April, there were days when the crematorium would get more than 200.
    Krishna Pokharel, WSJ, 19 May 2021
  • One group of refugees had come from a train likely bound for Dachau’s crematorium in the final days of the war.
    Emanuella Grinberg, Smithsonian, 11 July 2018
  • As the world of the film opens up, the viewers learn that the lone woman at the crematorium is Sandra (Thandiwe Newton).
    Aramide Tinubu, Essence, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Villagers said some of the girl's remains were saved from the crematorium.
    Fox News, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The crematorium fire roars like a hungry dragon at the far end.
    Madhushree Ghosh, Longreads, 12 May 2021
  • The crematorium's priest had called the victim's mother and showed her the body of her dead child, Singh said, citing the mother's statement.
    CNN, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The warning signs were there from the moment that a few score of us gathered at the crematorium in Middlesex.
    Douglas Murray, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • After all, the site is a former crematorium, and a small graveyard still sits on the premises.
    Cameron Cook, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Mamtesh Sharma has worked for 20 years for the trust that runs the Bhadbhada crematorium in the city, one of several.
    Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The crematorium would be in the same funeral home where the wake for Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody in 2015, was held.
    Billy Jean Louis, baltimoresun.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • For the second time in three days, members of the family returned to the crematorium.
    Washington Post, 17 June 2021
  • Back in Blue Ash, past the restrooms and a few medical offices is the crematorium.
    Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The crematorium is now also running short of firewood for the pyres.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Against the wishes of his family, his body was being rushed not to a cemetery, but to a crematorium.
    The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Bodies on biers, covered in white sheets and bound by rope, were pulled out and taken into the crematorium.
    Vedika Sud, CNN, 4 June 2021
  • Bhumibol’s body will then be moved to the crematorium in a coffin overnight.
    Sunil Jagtiani, Bloomberg.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The crematorium laid the bodies out in body bags on stretchers for the stark ceremony, per Bloomberg.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 4 Jan. 2023
  • And, of course, the amount of alcohol in Frank’s corpse later causes a small explosion in the crematorium.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Dogs were often seen gnawing at some of the 400 corpses just a short distance from a crematorium in Kanpur, the largest city in UP with close to four million people.
    Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • In Zittau, a city in the southeastern part of the state, the mayor announced Tuesday evening that bodies would have to be stored outside the crematorium.
    Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Kohli left the stadium for the crematorium to attend the last rites of his father, the man who had always supported his dream to be a cricketer.
    Vedika Sud, CNN, 4 Dec. 2020
  • With permission from the local rabbi, the team was able to dig under the blacktop and locate the crematorium.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
  • One of the attendants at the crematorium, just before the coffin rolled away to be consumed, invited me to place my hand on the coffin.
    V. S. Naipaul, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Soon the death toll in the city of Bergamo reached such heights that an army convoy had to transport coffins out because its cemeteries and crematoriums were full.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The LaDeurs are begging the thief — or any good Samaritan who might somehow come across the remains — to mail the box to the crematorium or take it to any funeral parlor.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Copies of the royal crematorium have been built in all of Thailand’s 76 provinces, so that people around the country can pay their respects.
    The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The crematorium would be built within the funeral home at 4905 York Road.
    Billy Jean Louis, baltimoresun.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • And, to be fair, King Bhumibol’s crematorium is a far cry from the 80-metre structures of the 18th century.
    The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Burning people crawled among the corpses like some horror in a vast crematorium.
    Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022

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