How do you use Pyre in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like pile or heap, plus the exact meaning.
Pyre in a sentence
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Pyre meaning
- A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
- Any heap or pile of combustibles.
Synonyms of Pyre
Using Pyre
- The main meaning on this page is: A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned. | Any heap or pile of combustibles.
- Useful related words include: funeral pyre, pile, heap, mound.
- In the example corpus, pyre often appears in combinations such as: funeral pyre, the pyre, pyre of.
Context around Pyre
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pyre
- In this selection, "pyre" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, funeral, burning, great, sequence, funerals and themselves stand out and add context to how "pyre" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a funeral pyre of british and a great pyre in geatland. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pyre" sits close to words such as abated, aberrations and activations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pyre
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A pyre of burning tyres shot orange flames. (8 words)
I think he’s heading to the pyre. (8 words)
They piled the wood and lit the pyre themselves. (9 words)
The moving scene of an emotional Narendra Modi leaving the national capital to his hometown to see for the last time the lifeless body of his mother and then carrying his mom’s dead body to the funeral pyre had touched the hearts of the world. (46 words)
The whispers include a stolen pig carcass, priests engaging in extramarital affairs…and some claim that the place is haunted, as corpses have gone missing from their grave…but is the necromancer, burned at the pyre, truly responsible? (38 words)
His films, such as “India’s Dark Side” and “Children of the Pyre”, have painted a bleak picture of India, portraying it as a nation plagued by social injustice, rampant inequality, and deep-seated societal ills. (36 words)
The whispers include a stolen pig carcass, priests engaging in extramarital affairs…and some claim that the place is haunted, as corpses have gone missing from their grave…but is the necromancer, burned at the pyre, truly responsible? (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
No one but Heracles' friend Philoctetes ( Poeas in some versions) would light his funeral pyre (in an alternate version, it is Iolaus who lights the pyre).
I Have a constant burning pyre of tractor tyres in my back garden.
In funeral pyre sequence at the end, the emotion in my eyes and my voice is palpable, and it was real.
Martin Kulp, head of legal for the Ministry of Regional Affairs, admitted that the Cemeteries Act does not directly treat with pyre funerals.
The moving scene of an emotional Narendra Modi leaving the national capital to his hometown to see for the last time the lifeless body of his mother and then carrying his mom’s dead body to the funeral pyre had touched the hearts of the world.
His films, such as “India’s Dark Side” and “Children of the Pyre”, have painted a bleak picture of India, portraying it as a nation plagued by social injustice, rampant inequality, and deep-seated societal ills.
Daenerys places the petrified dragon eggs in Khal Drogo's funeral pyre before walking into the inferno.
He came out as Pyre, a superhuman with the ability to fire microwaves out of his hands.
It seemed a funeral pyre of British hopes, mocking their plans to escape the German juggernaut.
The Targaryen queen hatches the dragons in Khal Drogo's funeral pyre and they accompany her throughout her campaign in Slaver's Bay.
They piled the wood and lit the pyre themselves.
Wednesday morning, dozens of firefighters were gathered in a staging area less than 100 yards from the burning pyre.
We first meet Davies in when she’s screaming from atop a pyre constructed as part of a movie set on William Randolph Hearst’s—or as she calls him, Pops’—infamous San Simeon estate.
A pyre of burning tyres shot orange flames.
The moment she emerged from the flames of her husband’s funeral pyre unscathed and swaddling three young dragons, Daenerys has been on the clear path to reclaiming the Iron Throne for House Targaryen.
I think he’s heading to the pyre.
Pyre, the an action role-playing game, was released on July 25, 2017 and created by Supergiant games.
The funeral pyre was lit by his elder son Mohit.
The whispers include a stolen pig carcass, priests engaging in extramarital affairs…and some claim that the place is haunted, as corpses have gone missing from their grave…but is the necromancer, burned at the pyre, truly responsible?
After Beowulf's death, he is ritually burned on a great pyre in Geatland while his people wail and mourn him.
Common combinations with pyre
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- funeral pyre 17×
- the pyre 11×
- pyre of 5×
- pyre in 4×
- pyre and 4×
- on pyre 4×
- pyre with 3×
- burning pyre 2×
- pyre was 2×
- pyre the 2×