Example sentences for: urn

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

  • If Washington Square is underripe, U-Turn and Devil's Advocate are rotting.

  • An article on Oliver Stone says he has eschewed political diatribe in his forthcoming film U-Turn and his planned sequel to Mission: Impossible . Instead, Stone seeks mainstream clout.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.


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