How to Use casket in a Sentence

casket

noun

• Ryan's casket was placed in a special area at the front of the church near the altar.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2021
• So up came the lid of the light gray casket, the bouquet of white roses pushed aside.
  — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• The eight troops set the casket down inside the cavernous aircraft.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• In one scene, airplane passengers are glued to their windows as the escort officer salutes the casket coming down off the plane.
  — Noël Lipana, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2021
• Rick Sturtz, a woodworker in Neillsville, built Lincoln's casket.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2021
• The Schulte’s are waiting to hear whether or not Kylen can be displayed at an open casket service or if her body will be cremated.
  — Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2021
• Her casket was barely visible beneath a mountain of pink and white roses, with more flowers cascading down the sides and onto the altar.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
• Prior to the nearly 90 minute-long memorial service, Hayes' casket entered the church as a bagpiper played on the steps.
  — Juliet Pennington, PEOPLE.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• At the casket of Emmett Till, two families of different races met and struck up a conversation.
  — Lonnie G. Bunch Iii, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021
• The picture shows Biden appearing to check his watch, Trump salutes as men in fatigues carry a casket draped in the American flag.
  — Daniel Funke, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
• After the service, a group of pallbearers, made up of police and fire personnel and two boys whose father was close to Walters, carried the casket to a hearse.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2021
• Dirt from his burial site at Mt. Olivet was sprinkled on the casket, and people who have prayed to Ryan to intercede on their behalf dropped flowers there.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2021
• Two days later, a caller reported to police that a person matching the description of the woman who stole a casket from their business was seen at a nearby convenience store.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2024
• At the funeral, Emmett’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley determined that her son’s maimed and broken body would lie for all to view in an open casket.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Aug. 2021
• The procession taking the casket from the church to the cemetery will take a right on Blankenbaker and merge onto Interstate 64 West.
  — Mary Ramsey, The Courier-Journal, 11 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Her casket was lowered to the strains of a lament from the queen’s bagpiper.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• Another soldier makes the same trek and stands at the foot of the casket.
  — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The county currently doesn’t sell casket spaces for those wishing to plan for burials.
  — Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024