noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
funeral pyre
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Ramdas set fire to the funeral pyre .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
funeral
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A special funeral pyre was built in the nearby woods to cremate deceased Hindu servicemen.
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M., Ramdas, the third son of the Mahatma, set fire to the funeral pyre .
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The birds returned, invaded Bird Spirit Land and flocked and swarmed above the funeral pyre .
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There was something noble, almost Roman about it all: Let the steel industry be my funeral pyre .
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Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke, he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time.
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They held that a suicide should not be honored with a funeral pyre and urn-burial.
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She crawled closer to the funeral pyre , rejoicing in its warmth, and slept.
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So, haunted by images of funeral pyres of livestock, how far should we go to support farmers and auxiliary industries?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But what if everything was burned on a pyre sixty years ago?
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Huge pyres of old railway sleepers and fence posts are being built to burn the bodies.
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M., Ramdas, the third son of the Mahatma, set fire to the funeral pyre .
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Nine days they lamented him; then they laid him on a lofty pyre and set fire to it.
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She rode around the blazing pyre .
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Smoke from Scathach's pyre was black, rising high into the dusk.
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The birds returned, invaded Bird Spirit Land and flocked and swarmed above the funeral pyre .
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The dead have ritually been interred in pyramids, cremated on burning pyres, and sunk beneath the oceans' waves.