pyre

[ UK /pˈa‍ɪ‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˈpaɪɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
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How To Use pyre In A Sentence

  • A copyreader might not find it perfect, for the assault is allotted too much space and the pursuit too little, but it tells the story in its baldest aspect. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing
  • As soon as this began to thicken, Neb carefully removed it with a wooden spatula; this accelerated the evaporation, and at the same time prevented it from contracting an empyreumatic flavor. The Mysterious Island
  • I enclose you Dr. Johnson's definition of a vampyre, which is as follows: Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1
  • And they've also found two new mutations that make the roaches more resistant to pyrethroid and related insecticides.
  • Among the substances currently being studied for their potential as delousing agents in salmon are the pyrethroid insecticides.
  • Someday it may even be possible for the soul of a skeptical scientist to orbit into the empyrean, carrying his karma with him, looking for a suitable body to be born into!
  • In America, or the more empyrean realm of art, few citizens were more senior than Al, none more youthful, cogent, articulate or productive.
  • As he said the word, the Angel took flight towards the Empyrean.
  • The patient was apyretic, although complained of being hot. Mind Hacks: April 2005 Archives
  • Let these wives first step into the pyre, tearless without any affliction and well adorned.
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