Words similar to urn

Example sentences for: urn

How can you use “urn” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

From a copper urn, glasses of mint tea were poured,Of a tongue-stiffening sweetness.
Tools and ceremonial objects were found just where they were dropped at the time of the great cataclysm along with the crystal rhyton on view in the Iráklion Museum and a chest containing hundreds of clay tablets inscribed with the Linear A script; archaeologists even discovered an urn with olives preserved though the millennia.
When Keats looks at the painted figures and trees on the Grecian urn (in "Ode on a Grecian Urn"), he is not just happy that these apparitions will never fade, because they are art, and thus permanent; he is happy that they have never had to live, that they are not suffering: "Ah, happy, happy boughs!
Some Arnoldian examples: Shoe Horn and Soul Music, Jello Dali, Orange-juice Harp, Knocked Urn in Sea (did you wince? That is a clichéic, kneejerk reaction, and you should be ashamed of yourself), Valse Teeth.
The dark sheds where executions were carried out have been preserved, and outside a stone urn, filled with soil from concentration camps, stands in a corner of the paved yard.