Examples of 'pyre' in a sentence

Meaning of "pyre"

pyre (noun): A heap of combustible material, especially one for burning a corpse as part of a funeral ceremony. This phrase is often used in the context of rituals or ceremonies involving fire
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  • A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
  • Any heap or pile of combustibles.

How to use "pyre" in a sentence

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The pyre has dolls in coffins hung on it.
One does not leave a burning pyre behind.
A holy wooden pyre is just something else.
Pyre is another book of the same writer.
Light the pyre and set us free.
The dump could represent a funeral pyre.
When the pyre turns you to fire.
I smoked the veal on a pyre of dry hay.
Set up a pyre at the great market square.
They have put out the pyre.
A funeral pyre for his father.
And our love becomes a funeral pyre.
The pyre is on flame by the hands of those barbarians.
There is not enough wood to build a pyre.
Broteas was consumed on a pyre as a propitiating sacrifice.

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You do not come to give fire to my pyre.
A funeral pyre still burns inside me.
Let this bloodstain burn with me on my pyre.
The pyre of love is burnt out.
A solitary tower atop of which is a mahogany pyre.
The giant pyre burned for five years.
That barn was their funeral pyre.
The pyre also contained exotic animal skins.
Dido leapt onto the burning pyre.
The pyre is often ignited using rockets or fireworks.
Threw herself right on the funeral pyre.
The time of the pyre has come again.
His nephew lit the funeral pyre.
This picture of a pyre as well as the following one.
It was a setting that looked like a funeral pyre.
Made a pyre that went on for days.
You will not need a funeral pyre.
Burning a body on a pyre is the ultimate heroic burial.
By then we will be burning on the funeral pyre.
If there is a pyre burning we stay out of the crematorium.
Yes but prepare meanwhile the pyre.
And telecast your pyre live on your channel.
They burned his body on a giant pyre.
She was carried on to the pyre and it was set fire to.
My son will make me light the pyre.
Funeral pyre and torch him.
People once went to the pyre for this.
The pyre has to burn.
This has been magnified into an immense pyre.
I was out at the funeral pyre earlier with him.
This must become their funeral pyre.
Might have put him on a pyre for the unidentifieds.
A cremation is when a corpse is placed on a pyre and.
The flaming funeral pyre on my flaming funeral pyre ship.
The rogues have already lit the pyre.

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