How to Use caisson in a Sentence

caisson

noun

• Caro: So the caisson is pulled up to the front of White House.
  — Bob Schieffer, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2017
• Atop the caisson, Callahan’s casket was draped with the American flag.
  — Ames Alexander, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2017
• The caisson would normally have a casket on it, draped in an American flag.
  — Drew F. Lawrence and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
• Pershing, wearing a dark mourning band on one sleeve, and Harding, wearing a top hat, walked side by side behind the caisson.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Nov. 2021
• His coffin was loaded on a caisson, a riderless horse trailing behind, just like that day with my daughter.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Time, 10 Oct. 2019
• As was one of the first soldiers to arrive, his job was to deploy concrete caissons that would form a temporary harbor to help soldiers rapidly load cargo onto the beach.
  — Adam Beam, The Seattle Times, 19 Nov. 2018
• Two years ago on our visit, a detachment from the Old Guard–the ceremonial troops who work at Arlington–was lined up in formation behind a riderless horse and caisson.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Time, 10 Oct. 2019
• Wilkinson said a source of encouragement with the seawall issues is that when the city recently rebuilt parts of the Monroe Street parking garage on the park’s northern side, there were no groundwater issues in drilling caisson anchors.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 27 Oct. 2022
• Recently, crews completed drilling 3-foot caissons into the bedrock and installing Geofoam behind the new retaining wall.
  — Jennifer Rios, The Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2019
• A caisson pulled by white Percherons carried the fallen soldier’s coffin, draped with a flag, to his family, past the long, straight rows of marble headstones emblematic of Arlington National Cemetery.
  — David Zucchino, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• As of May, there were 2,019 oil platforms, including caissons and well protectors, in federal waters off Louisiana's coast, according to numbers McDonough presented to the commission.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 9 June 2017
• First Flight was a retired racehorse who briefly worked as a caisson horse in military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery before reportedly bolting with a general's coffin.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2023
• During military funerals, caissons — wheeled vehicles originally designed to carry artillery, but used since the 19th century to remove dead soldiers from battlefields — drawn by horses carry caskets to gravesites.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• The Army Military District of Washington is also considering reducing the weight of the caisson, which is about 2,800 pounds without the casket.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 10 May 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024