How to Use casket in a Sentence

casket

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  • Crowds lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the Queen's casket.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The box was placed in a casket and flown to DRC on June 21.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 22 June 2022
  • He was buried in a light blue suit, in a light blue casket.
    — James E. Causey, jsonline.com, 20 Apr. 2022
  • From there, Rip, Kayce and the hands carried the casket to the field to bury John next to his late wife.
    — Charlie Mason, TVLine, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Ryan's casket was placed in a special area at the front of the church near the altar.
    — Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Her casket was lowered to the strains of a lament from the queen’s bagpiper.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • So up came the lid of the light gray casket, the bouquet of white roses pushed aside.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Another soldier makes the same trek and stands at the foot of the casket.
    — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Brown's casket was open from the waist up and a thin veil covered his face.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
  • What’s left in the casket tells us nothing about their lives.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2021
  • At the foot of the hill, people cluster around an open casket.
    — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
  • At his wake, Goines lay in a casket with two of his novels.
    — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2022
  • At the turn of the new year, 2018, Newsweek tweeted a photograph of Dr. King in his casket.
    — Ebony Flake, Essence, 16 Jan. 2023
  • But one tradition that would be retained is the placing on the casket of the book of the Gospels.
    — Time, 28 Dec. 2022
  • But many of its young men who went off to fight have returned in caskets.
    — Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • People pay for The Sims to be able to make a skin tone that doesn't make my Sims look casket ready.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 23 June 2022
  • Svengoolie stands in his casket, about to say good night for now.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The casket was then placed on a table and wheeled inside.
    — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The procession stretched three miles long; the casket was placed on the back of a farm wagon pulled by mules.
    — Clarence B. Jones, The New Yorker, 18 July 2023
  • When his casket shut closed and a hymn began, the room erupted in grief.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 31 May 2022
  • In the first scene, a character also named David pops out of the casket dressed in a white suit and bow tie.
    — Megan O’Grady, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The officers will take turns to stand vigil at the corners of the casket in 20-minute shifts around the clock.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Each attendee places a white rose on the casket to say final farewells.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The eight troops set the casket down inside the cavernous aircraft.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Aside from the gravedigger, Ruslan Trebushkin is the last to toss dirt on the casket, which had been closed.
    — Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022
  • Then the casket was lowered, and cemetery workers came with a Bobcat to fill the hole and break down the tent.
    — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • About 80 people had streamed in to sign the guest registrar and briefly stand by the open casket.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 3 May 2021
  • The wagon carrying the casket gets stuck in a pothole, and as the crowd surges to touch the queen, the casket rocks.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
  • In 2022, the herb was part of the floral arrangement that adorned Queen Elizabeth II’s casket.
    — Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Why then is her second message to her father’s casket a promise to avenge his death?
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2024

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