Example sentences for: urn

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

  • 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!

  • The only surprise about U-Turn is the good reviews it got from people who should know better.

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

  • 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.

  • On the mantle, an old iron urn holds cascading ivy and some fragrant winter honeysuckle.


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