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
• In one spot, near the front wall along Franklin Street, the temperature soared to 3600 degrees, twice as hot as in a crematorium.
  — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
• 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
• Instead, poison gas soon left a chamber full of corpses, which were lugged to a nearby crematorium and burned.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
• 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
• There’s a scene where Höss and three others are sitting in the office talking about a new crematorium being built.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 10 Jan. 2024
• 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
• The horrors of the Holocaust are never seen directly, only in the smoke from the crematorium next door creeping into the house and human remains interrupting a lovely day out by the river.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024