How to Use funeral director in a Sentence

funeral director

noun
  • The funeral director held the door for them on their way out.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 10 June 2020
  • The health department dropped off a swab for the funeral director, who swabbed the body.
    Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The other is a funeral director who is a good man but who doesn’t set her ablaze.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The film tells the tale of an ex-con funeral director who has a chance meeting with an orphaned girl.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 26 June 2022
  • As the service drew to a close, Gorham approached the funeral director.
    Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Then Greenebaum, a funeral director in a nearby city, reached out to the rabbi.
    Holly Yan, CNN, 8 July 2022
  • To see the white gloves the funeral director wanted to use to cover her bruised, cut hands, and the pink carnations in her nest of dark hair.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2015
  • The third white box, sealed tightly shut, contained the rest of the baby’s remains, the funeral director told her.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 10 June 2020
  • The funeral director led me into the empty chapel: the coffin was on a bier near a door, where, on the other side, the hearse was parked and waiting.
    David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • At one point, the funeral director even kept the lights off in the chapel to discourage people from coming in.
    cincinnati.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • But by then, the funeral director had died and did not record what happened to the remains or tell anyone else.
    Rennie Svirnovskiy, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The funeral director, José Manuel Rodríguez, wore jeans because the wind busted the windows and the rain drenched all his suits.
    Alaska Dispatch News, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Gustin, the funeral director, says it’s never her role to judge.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Aimee Stephens, a transgender funeral director, died a month before the high court ruled in the case.
    John Fritze, USA Today, 1 June 2021
  • Wearing a black suit, a white tie, and white gloves, Burson, 6, worked alongside the funeral director and rode in the passenger side of the hearse.
    Nicole S. Daniel | The Birmingham Times, al, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Since 1974, he’s been a funeral director in the town of Milford, Michigan.
    Thomas Lynch, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The funeral director will embalm the deceased and then the Amish family will take the body into their care.
    Caleb Wilde, The Cut, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Her grandmother, Shirley Drew Jones, was the first woman to be a licensed funeral director in the state.
    Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
  • No one knows better than a funeral director that life is short.
    CBS News, 14 June 2019
  • The funeral home had a dress code that required male funeral directors to wear pant suits and women to wear skirt suits.
    Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 14 June 2019
  • Aunt Glo and the funeral director (Williams), now Gil’s lover (yes, that happened), follow in hot pursuit.
    Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
  • Only later was there a meeting in which the funeral director told the family that there had been a mix-up, the complaint states.
    Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 28 July 2022
  • The latest surge in deaths has overwhelmed even a funeral director who has spent four decades laying people to rest.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2020
  • After making all the arrangements, the funeral director made a call to St. Elizabeth to pick up the body.
    Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Next the funeral director makes a small incision near the clavicle, to access the jugular vein and carotid artery.
    Mark Evely, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Timothy Mott noticed Wilburn hanging around and told the funeral director to watch him, Salazar told the jury.
    Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Before the two stainless steel caskets were closed for eternity the funeral director had a final mission, the last thing to do for the strangers who had become part of her life.
    oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Even so, Torres never set out to be a funeral director.
    Eleanor Cummins, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Another one passed this year requires funeral directors, embalmers, and cremationists to be licensed by the state.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
  • According to licensed funeral director and embalmer Amanda Marie Eilis King, this is another reason why embalming has become less popular.
    Sabina Wex, Glamour, 17 June 2024

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