pine box
Example Sentences
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About 30,000 people attended that event, Fernando Chavez said, and when family members grew tired of carrying the simple pine box through the streets of Delano, Calif., others stepped in.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2024
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
When they got her into the hallway, they opened the pine box, and Sadie began to cry.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
