How to Use pallbearer in a Sentence

pallbearer

noun

• He and three other one-armed golfers will be the pallbearers.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 21 Feb. 2020
• Basil’s son, Kevin Basil, was one of his cousin’s pallbearers.
  — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• The coffin was wheeled out of the church by eight of Mrs. Bush’s grandsons, who served as pallbearers.
  — Manny Fernandez, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2018
• Bill Shanker, one of the pallbearers at the funeral asked him.
  — Caitlin Keating, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2017
• When the pallbearers began shoveling the dirt into the grave, the top of the box collapsed.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 28 Feb. 2018
• One of the victims, 30-year-old Ronald Steven, was a pallbearer, police said.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 June 2023
• Men and pieces of ladder tumbled to the ground; some of the pallbearers scurried onto the tower.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 18 June 2018
• Donald Reed, a fellow Boy Scout, served as a pallbearer for one of the victims.
  — Steve Bowersox, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2024
• All but one of the eight members of the Peace Committee had come to act as honorary pallbearers, even as the charges hung over them.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
• The temple was quiet as her casket was rolled out by the pallbearers.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz and, Miami Herald, 14 May 2024
• In the rows next to them sat nearly 50 firefighters, 10 of whom were pallbearers.
  — Kelly Brennan, Philly.com, 11 July 2018
• When Jim Shoemake died in 2013, Wylie served as a pallbearer at the funeral.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• Bush’s eight grandson served as pallbearers, carrying the casket out of the church.
  — Hamza Shaban, Philly.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• After the service ended, Donovan, one of the pallbearers, helped lift the casket.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2020
• With his children among the pallbearers, Best's casket was wheeled toward the door and draped in an American flag.
  — Emanuella Grinberg, CNN, 5 June 2017
• Eight of Bush’s grandchildren served as pallbearers, wheeling her coffin out of the church.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Apr. 2018
• The service The coffin was carried by eight royal guard pallbearers and was placed at the front of the Abbey surrounded by four large candles.
  — Olivia Blair, Town & Country, 9 Aug. 2017
• The day his players served as pallbearers at the funeral of assistant coach Aaron Feis might have been the hardest, May said.
  — Manny Navarro, miamiherald, 25 May 2018
• His coffin was draped with the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran and friends acted as pallbearers.
  — Nasser Karimi, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• Her family, the nine able to be there, had to stay in their cars and watch as cemetery workers — no pallbearers allowed — took her casket out of the hearse and placed it in the vault.
  — Jonathan Bullington, The Courier-Journal, 22 Apr. 2020
• When the funeral party arrived at the cemetery, Dreher saw that the pallbearers, too, had removed their shoes.
  — Josh Rothman, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• Bono and Bob Geldof were also in attendance, while Johnny Depp was one of the pallbearers.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• As a guide for the project, Madden turned to Kilroy, who was best man at one of the fighter’s weddings and a pallbearer at his parents’ funerals.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
• That means many of the people who would act as honor guard pallbearers or rifle squad members are in the high-risk group for coronavirus.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2020
• Collier was supposed to serve as a pallbearer at the funeral.
  — Zach Murdock, courant.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Cohen was a close friend of Justin’s PM father, Pierre, and had served as honorary pallbearer at his funeral in 2000.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2017
• Former law clerks to the justice will serve as honorary pallbearers as his casket arrives at the Supreme Court for viewing by the public.
  — CBS News, 22 July 2019
• For liberal Jews, there’s also a lack of pallbearers now.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2020
• When Norman died in 2006, Smith and Carlos flew to Australia to be pallbearers at his funeral.
  — Jared McCallister, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Gloves worn by pallbearers are draped on the casket of retired officer, Charles Jackson Jr., who died from Covid-19.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024