How to Use columbarium in a Sentence

columbarium

noun

• Abel has tried to adapt to these changes with a new columbarium.
  — Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2020
• The restored stone crypt and the new columbarium have 645 niches.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
• The plaque notes his final resting place in the columbarium near the Chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea.
  — Maddie Capron and Justin Lear, CNN, 4 Dec. 2019
• This place is called the columbarium, and at first, the very existence of this vast chamber full of urns can come as a surprise.
  — Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2019
• The columbarium in All Saints Chapel is open to anyone in the community who would like to purchase a niche for their final resting place.
  — The Aegis, 10 Feb. 2018
• The veterans’ ashes will be laid to rest in a columbarium that will house the urns and display a veteran plaque to honor their service to their country.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2022
• The remains can be cremated, and the ashes can go into a columbarium niche for 30 years, renewable for 20 more.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2018
• Many longtime volunteers have also asked to be buried near the babies, so a columbarium will be built onsite.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019
• About five years ago, Filer Cemetery added a columbarium with marble niches for urns.
  — Heather Kennison, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• After the service, the MIAP veterans were placed in the columbarium court, where cremated remains rest in the cemetery.
  — Ayana Hamilton, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
• Cremated remains may be scattered, kept at home, buried in a cemetery or interred in a columbarium.
  — Kevin Brasler, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• Each columbarium also will have an ossuary, which will hold ashes placed in satin bags in a single underground chamber.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2017
• The owners converted the structure, which has been brutalized for a century and a half by crashing waves, into the Eternity At Sea columbarium.
  — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2022
• The elemental simplicity of the columbarium at Saint Michael and All Angels.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 15 May 2020
• Construction of the columbarium would interfere with my right to free exercise of religion under the First Amendment.
  — Eilzabeth Owens-Schiele, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• These early forays turned up a number of marvels: a columbarium, filled with urns containing ashes and bones, as well as the largest Imperial-era reservoir yet found and a number of aqueducts.
  — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2021
• Another 1,000 poppies will be placed throughout the cemetery and columbarium.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2022
• The idea of tree burials has proven so popular in Japan that other temples and public cemeteries have mimicked the model, some providing burial spaces under individual trees and others spaces in a columbarium that surrounds a single tree.
  — Natasha Mikles, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2021
• After very lengthy inter-planetary orbits, the Centaur and its payload, including Dr. Chapman’s ashes, will become the first extra-terrestrial columbarium to forever orbit the sun.
  — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Chapel of the Chimes, a historic columbarium designed by pioneering architect Julia Morgan, is open but limiting the number of visitors and performing temperature checks.
  — Allen Matthews, SFChronicle.com, 7 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024