Sentence examples for crematory from inspiring English sources
The word 'crematory' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a place where dead bodies are cremated or burned, typically a funeral home or crematorium. Example: "I had to visit the crematory yesterday to make arrangements for my grandmother's cremation."
noun
The establishment or furnace that cremates bodies.
There he lives alone by the shore of the sacred Ganges and is engaged in the Hindu crematory service as a voluntary helper; Hindu belief in metamorphosis becomes a theme.
Set in October 1944 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, Son of Saul follows the activities of a Sonderkommando ("special commando"), a Jewish prisoner forced to herd his coreligionists into gas chambers and dispose of their bodies in the notorious crematory ovens.
After college, she took a job as a crematory operator at Pacific Interment, the same firm Mitford chose to perform her simple cremation following her death from lung cancer in 1996.
It contains three small white fragments, bits of bones of human beings who were incinerated in coke-fired crematory ovens, and whose ashes were dumped by the wheelbarrow-load into the still waters of the pond.
Far from being a vulture of the crematory, Szmul is a kind of saint of Auschwitz, ascetic and selfless.
They went to the crematory to pick up the small box of ashes, then drove up to their weekend cottage in Connecticut, taking the route of four days earlier.
A sturdy 20-year-old, he was ordered into the Sonderkommando, a unit of prisoners forced to direct thousands of other victims of the Nazis into the gas chambers and to bear their bodies into the crematories.
Moreover, the large subcamp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the four main gas chambers and crematories were located, was built for the principal purpose of carrying out Hitler's "Final Solution of the Jewish Question".
Sales of crematories — there are about 2,200 across the nation, according to the cremation association — are growing steadily as funeral home directors decide to perform cremations themselves rather than paying others to do so, said Paul F. Rahill, president of the cremation division at Matthews International, a major manufacturer.
Instead, we are left with a fantasy — lessons about planting trees and shunning bullies instead of confronting tyrants and crematories.
Other groups have distributed in-house guides to the legal changes, and even hold funerals for members on their own premises rather than risk entrapping privately run crematories.
