cremation

Example Sentences

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While it does not oppose cremation, it does ban scattering of ashes.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Price was acquitted, leading directly to a new law allowing cremation in the UK.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Purves added that the price was expected to be similar to, or slightly more than, a normal cremation.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

The process is used in other countries around the world and was chosen as the cremation method of anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

After a very long prayer, the minister said, “Surely a simple service would do, then the cremation, just as he’d asked.”

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat