columbarium

How to use columbarium in a sentence

• Space also is being carved out to build a columbarium and a scatter garden, where people can distribute ashes of their loved ones, Thomas said.

  At a historic cemetery for the enslaved, a mother’s personal grief mixes with collective mourning | Rebecca Tan | October 24, 2021 | Washington Post

• Grace, a lawyer, and fellow Holy Trinity parishioner Jack Brady, an architect, proposed building a columbarium at Holy Rood.

  In Glover Park, an old Catholic cemetery gets new life | John Kelly | December 2, 2020 | Washington Post

• Thus they looked somewhat like the little entrances to a pigeon-house, and hence the name of columbarium.

  Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1 | Nathaniel Hawthorne

• As the niche was like a dove's nest in shape, it was called a "columbarium," the whole tomb a "columbaria."

  Rambles in Rome | S. Russell Forbes

• So as she still sat with shining eyes, dreaming again of that columbarium, I pressed to the next point.

  The Tower of Oblivion | Oliver Onions