1
: a small chest or box (as for jewels)
2
: a usually fancy coffin
casket
transitive verb
Examples of casket in a Sentence
bought a beautiful casket when her grandmother died
a small casket of jewels
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Biodegradable caskets and natural burial grounds are gaining traction.
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Melissa Houston, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
Four pallbearers brought the casket inside the church, as attendees looked on.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
Now, in the converted space, on rows of stainless tables, lay 13,000 bones exhumed from 46 graves — and 62 caskets — from the cemetery on the hill above Honolulu.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
The photos showed Kerry and her siblings, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., by their mother's casket.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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Melissa Houston, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
Four pallbearers brought the casket inside the church, as attendees looked on.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
Now, in the converted space, on rows of stainless tables, lay 13,000 bones exhumed from 46 graves — and 62 caskets — from the cemetery on the hill above Honolulu.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
The photos showed Kerry and her siblings, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., by their mother's casket.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Casket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/casket. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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