How to Use cremation in a Sentence

cremation

noun
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  • The report also states that the FBI released Crooks' body for cremation just 10 days after he was killed.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2024
  • Hundreds of others had to contend with the fact that the cremation would take place abroad.
    — Bhadra Sharma Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The cash would also help pay for the fetus’s cremation.
    — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • There were times when Clark could not complete the cremations in time for services, Clark said.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 23 Feb. 2024
  • That differed from the standard practice of the era, which was cremation.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Her ornaments were placed in the urn after the cremation.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 July 2021
  • The bodies of those who die in the hospital are taken for cremation.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Herodian refers to a procession from the Forum to the place of cremation.
    — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The team from this study has started to apply these techniques to a large sample of 1,000 cremation burials.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The friend also had doubts about the cremation, insisting Bianca was a Catholic opposed to the practice.
    — James Anderson, ajc, 11 July 2022
  • The one-hour service was followed by a private cremation.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Enlarge / An urn with ashes and a numbered cremation stone that is placed in the coffin of the deceased before the cremation.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2024
  • When their work was done, Morris unlocked the cremation box and the seven people aboard the boat took turns scooping nearly 300 pounds of fine, dove-gray ash into the sea.
    — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Koch knew how much Emily’s rings, especially the cremation band, meant to her.
    — Sonia Rao, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
  • Her family is Hindu and believes the soul can be released from the body only by cremation.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The Buddha’s tiny relics (cremations leave little behind) were buried deep inside the stupas’ core.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Singh said the extent of the cremation meant a post-mortem examination was unable to establish whether the girl was raped or how she was killed.
    — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2021
  • And don’t get cremated, as many say cremation adds tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Local authorities went to the scene and photographed the body, which was later moved to a funeral home to await cremation.
    — Jennifer Terker, CBS News, 1 July 2023
  • Ashok's body, sealed in a plastic bag, was taken by ambulance the next morning to an outdoor cremation ground.
    — Star Tribune, 23 May 2021
  • Google said that Orlando address housed a Sherwin-Williams paint store as well as a place for cremation equipment.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In the aftermath of the destruction, the 6.7-hectare site became a makeshift collection point for the identification and cremation of the city’s dead.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The timing of the cremation and return of Tokitae’s remains has not yet been determined.
    — Lynda V. Mapes, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Certain Bianca was opposed to cremation for religious reasons, the friend made a call about two weeks later… and set a chain of events in motion.
    — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The method is seen as a greener way for burial rather than more traditional options such as cremation.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Sometimes, ahead of slated cremations, Lodge allegedly invited buyers to come to the morgue and rifle through the body parts.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023
  • His cremation on a beach near Viareggio, which Lord Byron attended, later became the stuff of myth.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • And the Senate decreed that the route of the cortège—from the Forum to the Campus Martius, just over a mile to the north, where the cremation would take place—should follow that of triumphal processions, though the direction was reversed.
    — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The volunteers at the bank also help people acquire slots at the various cremation grounds.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 25 June 2021
  • To make matters even more painful for the Brady family, cremation is against their religious beliefs.
    — Ginger Allen, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2022

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