How to use "pyre" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "pyre" in popular movie and book plots

  • There, they construct a hasty pyre and burn Samri alive once and for all.  - Purana Mandir
  • Ako and Nimura climb to the top of the funeral pyre building, just as the black cloud they tried to avoid before moves over the Izu peninsula.  - Dragon Head
  • The companions then use the ruins of the wagon as a makeshift pyre for the members of the acting troupe, all killed during the escape.  - Shockscape
  • When the pyre is lit, Edmund panics and drops the doll – a small, hooded effigy which bears a striking resemblance to the Witchsmeller.  - Witchsmeller Pursuivant
  • In the end, Kannamma commits suicide and Bharathi jumps into her funeral pyre kills himself (in reference to the past Hindu practice of sati).  - Bharathi Kannamma
  • Buffy wakes up the morning after the battle, to find her friends building her funeral pyre believing her to be dead again.  - Queen of the Slayers
  • A funeral pyre is held; but it is revealed that Rand had exchanged psyches with Moridin, and is therefore alive.  - A Memory of Light
  • A funeral pyre at the shore is followed by a tribal frenzy during which an enraged Ayak burns down Sanna's hut.  - When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
  • The film ends with Gopal lighting Neela's funeral pyre as the rains finally come.  - Barsaat (1949 film)
  • She instead smashes up the furniture in the house and makes a funeral pyre for Wo.  - Exiled
  • She tells Iarbas and Anna that she intends to make a funeral pyre on which she will burn everything that reminds her of Aeneas.  - Dido, Queen of Carthage (play)
  • His corpse was burned in a pyre and his ashes were scattered across the area where Cabrini-Green now stands.  - Candyman (film)
  • The crew prepares a funeral pyre for Victor, but the ceremony is interrupted when the ice around the ship cracks.  - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)
  • The film begins with Rahul Khanna (Shah Rukh Khan) standing in front of the funeral pyre of his wife Tina (Rani Mukerji).  - Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
  • Yash soon learns that his mother had died and that her last wish was for Yash, Rahul, and Rohan to light her funeral pyre together.  - Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...
  • Elías, convinced he would die soon, instructs Basilio to build a funeral pyre and cremate his and Sisa's corpses.  - Noli Me Tángere (novel)

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