Thesaurus results for PYRE

pyre

noun

Definition of pyre

as in pile

a quantity of wood heaped together for burning a dead body a funeral pyre

Related Words

Relevance

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Recent Examples of pyre After the door of the structure had been closed and the grate ignited from above, the women, unseen from the outside, lay down on top of each other and created a pyre from their bodies, clinging to each other so tightly that not even a piece of straw could be squeezed between them. — Literary Hub, 7 Apr. 2026 However, when the pyre was lit, the boy’s devotion to Lord Vishnu protected him and left him unscathed while Holika, despite her immunity, burned to death. — ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026 Singapore’s Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum houses a tooth relic said to have been recovered from the Buddha’s funeral pyre in a giant stupa fashioned from 705 pounds of gold. — Deepa Bharath, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2026 Carcasses of trees are piled up like pyres in one; in another, they are laid flat like a mass grave. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 23 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pyre

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pyre

Noun

The government still has not come up with a solution to the mountainous piles of rotting garbage that accumulate on the streets for months.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
Cole went online, bought Steiffs by the piles, and lined the shelves of King’s bedroom.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of pile

Noun

The Tates built an online empire by selling an image of extraordinary personal wealth through displays of sports cars, stacks of cash and luxury watches.

— Jonny Hallam, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
Winter Park High School athletic director Charlie Battaglini said the city of Winter Park, with a proud link to its schools, has always played a big role in the Wildcats’ record-setting stack of state all-sports championships.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of stack

Noun

Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires.

— Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
He was filled with ambition to see more of the country, write a spy thriller and literally climb more hills.

— Andrea Javor, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of hill

Noun

The Chinese state news agency Xinhua, citing the country’s water resources ministry, said a new lake formed after Wednesday’s floods high in the mountains had largely drained.

— Victoria Milko, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Some thirty thousand tourists visited annually to soak in the mountain’s mineral springs and sip from a geyser of warm fizzy water.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026