casket

Example Sentences

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Hughes himself lay in one of the caskets to experience it.

From BBC

The room was long and narrow, with an absurdly low ceiling, and he was met with the eerie impression that he’d just stepped into a casket.

From Literature

Members of the Republican Guard carried the casket draped in a French flag into the courtyard to the beat of a drum before Macron read a eulogy, saying Jospin fought for justice and freedom.

From Barron's

QLAYAA, Lebanon — The bells rang, their peals obscuring the buzz of the Israeli drone overhead as the casket of Father Pierre al-Rahi arrived at the parish he had served.

From Los Angeles Times

He was three years old when a photographer captured him saluting his father’s casket, and for many years, that was how most of America pictured him.

From Salon