hearse
Example Sentences
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Officers on Tuesday night huddled in prayer outside the hospital where the officer was taken and later gathered around the hearse that was called to transport his body for autopsy.
From Seattle Times
She drove to save them in a beat-up hearse that she bought from a haunted attraction in Connecticut and that now serves as her fish rescue ambulance.
From New York Times
Taxis double as hearses, transporting corpses from hospitals to cemeteries.
From New York Times
One of the province's incinerators had broken down due to overuse, said Fernandez, so they were installing another and using a variety of state vehicles to transport the corpses given insufficient hearses.
From Reuters
The impact of the situation is clearly visible outside Yangon's cemeteries, where long lines of hearses, ambulances, and private cars carry the dead every day.
From BBC
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