funeral pyre

NOUN
  1. wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
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How To Use funeral pyre In A Sentence

  • The legs were also placed along the limbs of the corpse and all covered with the skin before mantras and oblations were made and the funeral pyre set alight.
  • A traditional Indian custom used to involve widows burning themselves alive on their husbands' funeral pyres.
  • After three short weeks the total of infected farms has risen to 135-19 of those in Scotland and the funeral pyres are still burning.
  • A traditional Indian custom used to involve widows burning themselves alive on their husbands' funeral pyres.
  • To explain the weakness of such a position I used to ask them whether the British authorities in India were justified in banning the practice of suttee, where a widow was immolated on the funeral pyre of her husband.
  • You might consider India and the outlawed 'suttee', where a widow would climb on the funeral pyre of her dead husband. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • He tried to liberate women from the practices of purdah (wearing a veil) as well as preaching strongly against the practice of sati (Hindu wife burning on her husbands funeral pyre).
  • Added funeral pyre map icon just for the hell of it.
  • Following this the proud king abdicated his throne to his son Anandapala and committed suicide by climbing onto his own funeral pyre.
  • To explain the weakness of such a position I used to ask them whether the British authorities in India were justified in banning the practice of suttee, where a widow was immolated on the funeral pyre of her husband.
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