urn - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • collar: Two cremations were found in large collared urns on either side of the barrow.
  • fill: MARY: Well, he told them to fill these big urns with water.
  • contain: The barrow contains two urns, found about 4 ft. apart, at a depth of 4ft.

Adjective modifier

  • cinerary: Near the same spot was found, some years ago, a clay cinerary urn, of the form commonly held to be Roman.
  • Grecian: A Grecian urn is draped in a cloth to symbolize mourning.
  • funerary: The figure is believed to be the lid of a pagan funerary urn.
  • ornamental: A view down a path lined with ornamental urns, with a lawn to the left and trees to the right.
  • funeral: Another was a funeral urn for a Great Dane's ashes.
  • classical: With an old garden wall as a backdrop, a classical urn forms the focal point.

Modifies a noun

  • finial: The bar is divided by glazed screens with urn finials, to allow customers chatting at the bar a little privacy from their neighbors.
  • burial: For children urn burial was common, with 73 sets of children?
  • identifier: Map ISBNs to URNs, using the ' ISBN ' URN namespace identifier.
  • step: The principal display is on the side of the Urn Steps.
  • scheme: Note, however, that any URN scheme intended to allow secure resolution must provide for encryption of transmitted URN data.

Noun used with modifier

  • cremation: In 2000, a bronze age inverted cremation urn was noted about a meter down in the cliff face.
  • terracotta: The sound of running water over a terracotta urn complete this garden.
  • burial: On 29th December 1851, cremated human bones were found together with pieces of a burial urn.
  • bucket: A number of cremation burials were found, one of which contained the miniature bucket urn pictured below.
  • tea: Not a pump or a tea urn to be seen.
  • marble: The spa waters were and still are available to visitors, dispensed by tap from elaborate marble urns.

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