pine box
Example Sentences
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In keeping with her mother’s request, the morticians wrapped the body in cotton — no embalmment — and put it in a pine box.
From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2023
The body was then carried in a pine box, often made by the local cabinet maker, to the nearby graveyard where it was interred and eventually became one with the earth.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2022
Like the guy who said he’d leave Ole Miss in a pine box, shortly before the helicopter to Auburn landed.
From Fox News • Jun. 12, 2020
All Southerners come home, even if it’s in a pine box, Truman Capote once opined.
From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2016
A few days later, Henrietta’s body made the long, winding train ride from Baltimore to Clover in a plain pine box, which was all Day could afford.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
