How to Use crematorium in a Sentence

crematorium

noun
  • The crematorium wasn’t functioning that day, and their job was to set fire to the corpses in the open air.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The crematorium fire roars like a hungry dragon at the far end.
    — Madhushree Ghosh, Longreads, 12 May 2021
  • Villagers said some of the girl's remains were saved from the crematorium.
    — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2021
  • One group of refugees had come from a train likely bound for Dachau’s crematorium in the final days of the war.
    — Emanuella Grinberg, Smithsonian, 11 July 2018
  • In April, there were days when the crematorium would get more than 200.
    — Krishna Pokharel, WSJ, 19 May 2021
  • Bhumibol’s body will then be moved to the crematorium in a coffin overnight.
    — Sunil Jagtiani, Bloomberg.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Burning people crawled among the corpses like some horror in a vast crematorium.
    — Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • And yes, the crematorium absolutely gets a lot of work on both the living and the dead.
    — Anthony Jeselnik, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The crematorium is now also running short of firewood for the pyres.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2021
  • After all, the site is a former crematorium, and a small graveyard still sits on the premises.
    — Cameron Cook, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Bodies on biers, covered in white sheets and bound by rope, were pulled out and taken into the crematorium.
    — Vedika Sud, CNN, 4 June 2021
  • Instead, poison gas soon left a chamber full of corpses, which were lugged to a nearby crematorium and burned.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The woman said her family waited in line all day at the crematorium.
    — USA Today, 14 May 2021
  • Against the wishes of his family, his body was being rushed not to a cemetery, but to a crematorium.
    — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
  • For the second time in three days, members of the family returned to the crematorium.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
  • The most unforgettable image was of children at the crematorium, some as young as four.
    — Vedika Sud, CNN, 4 June 2021
  • The warning signs were there from the moment that a few score of us gathered at the crematorium in Middlesex.
    — Douglas Murray, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • There’s a scene where Höss and three others are sitting in the office talking about a new crematorium being built.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 10 Jan. 2024
  • In a surprising response, the singer said the crematorium.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The crematorium laid the bodies out in body bags on stretchers for the stark ceremony, per Bloomberg.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Customers became suspicious after learning that the gas to the crematorium had been cut off.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • With permission from the local rabbi, the team was able to dig under the blacktop and locate the crematorium.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Back in Blue Ash, past the restrooms and a few medical offices is the crematorium.
    — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Merkel is set to give a speech at the Birkenau extermination camp, where the gas chambers and crematoriums were built.
    — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Kohli left the stadium for the crematorium to attend the last rites of his father, the man who had always supported his dream to be a cricketer.
    — Vedika Sud, CNN, 4 Dec. 2020
  • One of the attendants at the crematorium, just before the coffin rolled away to be consumed, invited me to place my hand on the coffin.
    — V. S. Naipaul, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The crematorium's priest had called the victim's mother and showed her the body of her dead child, Singh said, citing the mother's statement.
    — CNN, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The scenes from crowded crematoriums and media reports of thousands dying for lack of the most essential of health resources have shocked the world.
    — Ramanan Laxminarayan, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2021
  • And, of course, the amount of alcohol in Frank’s corpse later causes a small explosion in the crematorium.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Soon the death toll in the city of Bergamo reached such heights that an army convoy had to transport coffins out because its cemeteries and crematoriums were full.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023

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