How to Use pyre in a Sentence

pyre

noun

• The fire is lit through a chimney in the center of the pyre.
  — Alvaro Barrientos, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
• Take a nighttime boat ride down the Ganges in Varanasi, past the burning pyres66.
  — WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• As carts filled with bodies roll toward a mass pyre, Schindler spots the girl among the dead.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• The weaker men maintained the pyres that smoldered through the night, filling the air with the heavy smell of burning flesh.
  — Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• The weaker men maintained the pyres that smoldered through the night, filling the air with the heavy smell of burning flesh.
  — Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• Yes! ‘Tis our day, my neighbors to light these pyres and feast by these mighty waters!
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• Open pyres burn along the waterside, their bright flames dancing in the air with all the drama of a scene from Game of Thrones.
  — Skye McAlpine, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2018
• The girl sees the widows all around her kill themselves on a great funeral pyre.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Apr. 2023
• Not for the Pixar toys the yearnings of Pinocchio or the existential anguish of the rabbit on the pyre.
  — Ross Douthat, National Review, 11 July 2019
• At the last minute, an eagle would be released from the pyre, presumably glad to escape the flames.
  — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• In this case, the pyre was carefully sealed beneath a raft of two dozen bricks, arranged in four rows.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
• One crew hauled stretchers filled with corpses up the ramp, and another crew pushed the bodies onto the pyre.
  — Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• But a grisly mix-up had been made on the death certificate, and soon the wrong body would be burned on the funeral pyre.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2020
• The family travelled to Tibet to retrieve and cremate the body in a pyre at base camp.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2022
• Holika, who was immune to fire, tricked Prahlada to sit in a pyre with her.
  — Abhishyant Kidangoor, Time, 9 Mar. 2020
• Kratos and his son, Atreus, are out in the woods, chopping down a tree to be used for a funeral pyre for their dead wife and mother.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2018
• On the eve of the festival, large pyres are lit in many parts of India to signify the burning of evil spirits.
  — Abhishyant Kidangoor, Time, 9 Mar. 2020
• In a tradition dating back at least 200 years, a snowman figure called the Böögg is hoisted aloft a pyre in the square and set afire.
  — Susan Steade, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2017
• Think of the blazing boat burials written about in Icelandic sagas, or the pyre of legendary Beowulf.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 5 Jan. 2023
• At the open-air pyre in Colorado, I was held within the elegant bamboo walls, which kept mourners safe as the flames shot high.
  — Caitlin Doughty, Time, 4 Oct. 2017
• The child is burned on a pyre in yet another death ceremony.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
• Another young man in his late 30s was standing near a burning pyre.
  — Vedika Sud, CNN, 4 June 2021
• Colorful flags flapped in the salt air, and in the distance, the smoke of a burning pyre rose up from a graveyard shared by Hindus, Christians, and Muslims.
  — Patrice Grell Yursik, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2021
• As a priest lit the funeral pyre, close friends of Paudel came together to reminisce.
  — Anish Bhattarai, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• Maybe Taylor is burning them in a giant funeral pyre just out of view.
  — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 31 Oct. 2016
• The wood collected by Zeidel and his fellow prisoners would form the pyres.
  — Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• The family and its inner circle gather as the child's body is burned on a funeral pyre.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
• Stack plenty of extra dry tinder and kindling of various sizes near the pyre.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2017
• In Tahiti, trucks roamed the streets of Papeete to collect the dead, and great funeral pyres burned day and night to incinerate the bodies.
  — Ashley Halsey Iii, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2018
• An area of pyre pits that was used through the second century was also found at the site, archaeologists said.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024