urn
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An urn holding her ashes sits by the front door.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
They were contained in a white china urn with a teddy bear embossed on it, Ness recalled.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Hoyte van Hoytema’s Imax-framed cinematography is assertive and present, rocking with the stormy waves and peering into the torch-lit darkness where the color palette is as starkly orange and black as an ancient Greek urn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
It was supposed to be a fairytale reclaiming of the urn at The Oval next summer.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
When they put the “little figure” into the urn, the crowd erupted.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Near a white tent, about a hundred empty urns awaited ashes of the dead after cremation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
The firm also owns Batesville, a company that makes caskets and cremation urns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
He has added gold trim to the crown molding, smothered the walls with gold-framed artworks and gold-painted embellishments, placed inch-thick gold coasters on the desk, and lined up gold urns on the mantel.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Soldiers who demonstrated "extraordinary valour" are honoured with outdoor graves and tombstones, while others are commemorated in urns inside the columbarium.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
When they pressed their faces to the dark windows, they saw that everything was gone—the tables and chairs and big copper urns, the chalkboard where the figures for the day’s trades had been posted.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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