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hearse

[hurs] / hɜrs /


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A hearse driver lost his argument that the corpse in back was a passenger.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2026

In my neighborhood, the only time you ever saw a limousine was behind a hearse at a funeral.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 18, 2026

After it’s confirmed in the hospital that she’s gone, we see Harold racing along a twisty turny road in his car, a Jaguar with a hearse top welded onto it.

From Salon Feb. 17, 2026

A police photographer was called in, and a hearse was later seen leaving the scene.

From Barron's Jan. 23, 2026

The director was telling me that the hearse was waiting out in the road and at the same time I could hear the priest beginning his prayers.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

As part of the outpouring of solidarity from Venezuelans, many private funeral homes have offered free hearses to transport the dead, and free cremations.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

Several ambulances, hearses and vans are filmed around the grounds.

From BBC Jan. 14, 2026

The somber convoys of hearses and relatives crossed much of the battered Acapulco en route to the cemetery, passing ransacked stores, streets strewn with debris and soldiers cutting away fallen trees.

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 2023

On Thursday, two hearses carrying the bodies of Woodard and Brown crossed the international bridge to Brownsville, where the remains were handed over to U.S. authorities.

From Washington Times Mar. 9, 2023

Judge William Lewis saw house after house in his neighborhood abandoned, saw the streets empty, saw the hearses constantly passing his home, and fled.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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