How to Use columbarium in a Sentence

columbarium

noun
  • Abel has tried to adapt to these changes with a new columbarium.
    — Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2020
  • This place is called the columbarium, and at first, the very existence of this vast chamber full of urns can come as a surprise.
    — Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Many longtime volunteers have also asked to be buried near the babies, so a columbarium will be built onsite.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019
  • His grave is near the path dividing the southernmost section of the cemetery from the columbarium wall, where the urns are housed.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • All columbaria must be self-sustaining and can’t require any other parish funds, according to Casey.
    — Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Each columbarium also will have an ossuary, which will hold ashes placed in satin bags in a single underground chamber.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2017
  • And columbaria – the plural for columbarium – are on the rise in the Diocese of Nashville.
    — Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
  • About five years ago, Filer Cemetery added a columbarium with marble niches for urns.
    — Heather Kennison, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
  • And columbaria – the plural for columbarium – are on the rise in the Diocese of Nashville.
    — Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The first phase of the columbarium will hold about 325 niches and is estimated to be finished in the spring.
    — Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Later, the victims’ ashes were interred in a modest columbarium that the priest had built in a Catholic cemetery.
    — Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Principal and interest from the fund can be used for columbarium maintenance.
    — Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Funding The Diocese of Nashville does not pay for any aspect of a church’s columbarium.
    — Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The veterans’ ashes will be laid to rest in a columbarium that will house the urns and display a veteran plaque to honor their service to their country.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2022
  • For lack of a better option, both were placed in the columbarium, two more Does for the cemetery, and another story waiting to be told. Ask a historian David Reamer writes about Anchorage history, from murders and neighborhoods to churches and chinchillas.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The crematory, which was built in the fifties, shares a building with the executive offices, a columbarium, and two modern chapels.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • But that idea of a columbarium for burial urns received lukewarm support from his colleagues and residents who spoke at the recent council meeting.
    — Victoria Le, Oc Register, 24 Dec. 2025
  • And the columbarium would have been open to all Irvine residents, with priority given to veterans.
    — Victoria Le, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The remains can be cremated, and the ashes can go into a columbarium niche for 30 years, renewable for 20 more.
    — New York Times, 21 May 2018
  • If councilmembers agree this week, city staff would be directed to explore sites and plan for a municipal columbarium at the Great Park.
    — Victoria Le, Oc Register, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Remains end up either in a niche purchased in the columbarium, or sprinkled on the cemetery's Memorial Green set aside for that purpose.
    — Heller McAlpin, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The columbarium in All Saints Chapel is open to anyone in the community who would like to purchase a niche for their final resting place.
    — The Aegis, 10 Feb. 2018
  • The popularity of cremation brought us the contemporary columbarium, with its above-ground niches for urns.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 14 Apr. 2026
  • When Patrick’s father died, two years ago, Patrick and his siblings divided his ashes among themselves, and a portion rested in a columbarium; the urn was small.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Another 1,000 poppies will be placed throughout the cemetery and columbarium.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2022
  • The columbarium would serve Irvine residents, but give priority to veterans.
    — Victoria Le, Oc Register, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Her remains are stored in one of a series of ornate lockers in the columbarium of a Buddhist temple in Hsinchu, second from the bottom, just a few feet away from my uncle, her son.
    — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • No other parish revenues can be allocated for columbarium construction or maintenance, Casey said.
    — Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Construction of the columbarium would interfere with my right to free exercise of religion under the First Amendment.
    — Eilzabeth Owens-Schiele, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • After the service, the MIAP veterans were placed in the columbarium court, where cremated remains rest in the cemetery.
    — Ayana Hamilton, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2022

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