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How to use urn in a sentence

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There was no inscription on the urn, or on the bodylength slab of stone on the ground.
Joe had sneaked to the urn, then hid his filled tea-can under his overalls as he made his way back to the howff.
I have a small woodland garden in the middle of which is a large stone urn on a pedestal.
An ornamental Grecian brazier, or urn, is back in place on top of a 100 ft high column at Castle Howard.
Rooms full of armour and weaponry, another with a Russian stone urn that is so heavy they couldn't move it even during the fire.
But I guess if I was in the market for a good urn, it would be helpful to have an ad for it magically appearing at the top of my page.
A funeral urn full of ashes left in a Salford cab may have been part of an elaborate hoax by Irish pranksters.
Suddenly, a thought struck her, and she reached up to lift the cover off the urn.
After much soul-searching, she scattered his remains in a huge ornamental urn in the gardens of her Didsbury home.
The glistening celadon green urn creates a cool, eye-catching fountain on the rear terrace.
On a card table in the corner was a large restaurant-style coffee urn, and cups, saucers.
He handed the stack of paper cups and the tea urn he was carrying to a man who was helping him in his charitable work.
Burial vaults are used to protect a casket or urn once they have been buried in the ground.
The publisher of the Miami Herald, visiting New York, hands out eyewash and alcohol swabs, unloads trash bins, refills a huge coffee urn.
Classic urn lamps supported by contemporary consoles establish the room's style mix.
He is unceremoniously carted around in a plastic urn inside a carrier bag which nervously changes hands between them.
The deceased was sealed inside without being touched by the flames, but her opia left the urn through the small opening on its cover.
The Southern Fish is usually depicted on star maps at the feet of Aquarius, where it swallows up the water poured from his urn.
Two matches into the Ashes, England are already down and out with no hope of regaining the coveted urn.
The Dean of Westminster has consistently turned down applications for the urn to be re-opened but the Ricardians hope for different response now.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The bellflower, urn, festoons, and acanthus were all favorites of his for decoration.
In the introduction of the funeral pile and the cinerary urn, we have one important evidence of the adoption of novel rites.
You might have taken her for some fairy of the springs who had overturned her urn on herself.
One of these was discovered, alongside of a cinerary urn, in a tumulus at Memsie, Aberdeenshire.
Next day Daisy cashed the micro check for ten hundred silver smackers, which she hid in a broken radionic coffee urn.
This fatal urn encloses a dead majesty, but yestreen a reverenced deity, now a mere heap of earth.
The four figures of the Palladian urn on p. 313 are plagiarised in a similar way.
The cairn and tumulus, the cist and cinerary urn, all occur accompanied with contemporary relics.
Over the capital is an iron balcony encompassing a cippus, or meta, 32 feet high, supporting a blazing urn of brass gilt.
A third urn was found a few feet from the cist, filled, like the two others, with ashes and half-burnt bones.
Alluding to the lachrymatory vials, or bottles of tears, which the Romans sometimes put into the urn of a friend.
The urn which contained the ashes was then placed in another part of the tumulus.
On levelling a large tumulus a few years since, at Dalpatrick, Lanarkshire, a cist was discovered inclosing an urn.
My Lady turned to the Professor, who had uncovered the urn, and was taking its temperature with his pocket-thermometer.
The urn and dagger are now in the museum at Peel Park, Salford.
A SUIT of armour, a 20ft canoe and an urn full of ashes are some of the more unusual items donated this year, a charity said.
Here all is literal, even to the severed arm of Wolfe, and the urn which held the ashes of Queen Dido.
There was a rattle of cups and saucers and the hissing of a fluted Georgian urn.
Temple Bar gets so hot that it is, to the adjacent Strand and Fleet Street, what a heater is in an urn, and keeps them simmering all night.
Here the two figures are meant to convey or evoke an intense, supersensuous, thing-free quality perceived in the silent drawings on the urn.
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