How to Use urn in a Sentence

urn

noun

• For now, the Leonards are storing the urn in their garage.
  — J. Staas Haught, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2022
• The urn speaks of the unity of Truth and Beauty; the jar is mute.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2023
• But of course, by then, the urn is no longer in his window.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Place the legs upside down in a tall urn filled with moss.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2022
• In a shrewd metaphor, Tanya can’t even get the urn open herself.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 July 2021
• Mullen said the Navy has told her the bill was an error and has sent her a new urn.
  — Kiran Dhillon, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2022
• Fill out the front steps with black lanterns, pumpkins, and urns filled with mums.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
• The rest will go in an urn, and, Brock said, with her into her grave when her time comes.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Horner pulled a small urn from his backpack and began to sob.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• A few inches away stood a framed photograph of a dog and, next to this, a squat urn.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• McKnight drove to her sister’s office and showed her the urn.
  — Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• Our style was called ram’s head: two swoopy pieces of scrollwork with what looks like an urn in the middle.
  — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2021
• The grill had been scrubbed, but the coffee urn hadn’t been cleaned and the floor was only partially mopped.
  — Ryan Katz, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2022
• The sight of the urn holding Dante McFallo’s ashes pulled the teens away from their phones.
  — Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 11 Dec. 2022
• And in the center, the blue cloisonné urn with her son’s ashes.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2021
• The 1-year-old will kiss them and rub on her father’s urn that sits at their house, Faison-Craven said.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• That was because Ivan’s ashes were not in the urn, Street alleges.
  — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2021
• Just then, her mom pulls out an urn of her father's ashes.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• Now, his cap and gown rests inside his bedroom across from his urn.
  — Elaine Aradillas, PEOPLE.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• Place upside down in a tall urn filled with reindeer moss ($7, Michaels) by your front door.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
• His lungs and larynx were plucked out, placed in an urn, and kept in Missolonghi.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• Those times, Mull had brewed a fresh urn himself, from supplies stacked there.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• The family took an urn with Montes’ ashes to the cemetery.
  — Maria Perez, jsonline.com, 20 May 2021
• Waverly stays with Nicole — who is throwing red flags left and right — while Doc goes to feed the urn.
  — Dalene Rovenstine, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• Their ashes, feet bones and parts of their skull were then placed in an urn and buried in a sprawling cemetery in Poland.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
• Turn the spook factor up a notch on your Halloween front porch decor with this DIY black candle urn.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022
• The Tiffany necklace lies with Mia’s ashes in a rose quartz urn in their Alhambra home.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The veterinary clinic gave us his urn and a clay disk molded with his paw print.
  — cleveland, 6 June 2022
• On a desk in front of the window, there’s a wooden urn containing a dog’s remains.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2020
• Her urn looked exactly the same as 13 others placed alongside the edge of a freshly dug trench.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024