caisson

Example Sentences

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For years, members of the tiny preservation society — their ages now ranging from 60s to 80s — have flown out in helicopters, landing on the caisson.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2025

And in ceremonies for Army and Marine Corps officers who were colonels or above, there is a riderless horse that walks behind the caisson.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

A soldier, gingerly, with almost mechanical precision, removed the silver urn containing Megellas’s cremated remains from the caisson and carried it to the gravesite.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022

On November 11, 1921, the Unknown was placed on a horse-drawn caisson and carried in a procession through Washington, D.C. and across the Potomac River.

From Fox News • Oct. 4, 2021

Crossing slowly in the rain a few feet above the flood, pressed tight in the crowd, the box of an artillery caisson just head, I looked over the side and watched the river.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway