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Noun
With John Dutton's (Kevin Costner) grave dug, the cowboys return to the bunkhouse to clean up and don their Sunday best for the funeral. Matt Cabral, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2024 John was given a touching and ceremonial funeral in the season 5B finale. Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
The funeral banner features a typical mix of Lebanese faces, making up three generations of a Shiite Muslim family that lived for decades in this predominantly Christian area north of Beirut. Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2024 On Wednesday, walkie-talkies exploded, some during funeral processions being held for militants killed in Tuesday's explosions. David Brennan, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for funeral 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funeral
Noun
  • The Connecticut National Guard has issued a noise advisory for Friday, December 20, for Middletown, due to the private interment ceremony of former Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
  • From the day of death until the interment of an associate justice of the Supreme Court, a secretary of an executive or military department, a former vice president or the governor of a state.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.
    David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
Adjective
  • Her observations as a woman once romantically involved with the two of them at the same time, confirm their masculine inability to speak their feelings out loud unless they are veiled in mournful songs.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Very few directors working today can put across a movie like Gladiator II as convincingly, which perhaps explains why the sequel — for all its barbaric violence and the plaintive, at times stirring, discussions about justice and democracy — doesn’t have the mournful quality that the first film did.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The school's staff inflicted all manner of abuse, beatings, rapes, and torture on its unfortunate charges and even murdered many of them; as of 2012, nearly 100 deaths had been documented, along with 55 burial sites on school grounds.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
  • After Alice died, Sheila and Jenny wanted to hold a small service for the burial of her ashes.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Willow Avalon The metaphorical equivalent of a heartbroken singer-songwriter debutante ball is attacking live stages and streaming platforms in overwhelming waves.
    Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024
  • However, our team is heartbroken to know these new horses have been without proper food and care for so long.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Collard greens are a beloved staple in Southern and African American cuisine, celebrated for their hearty texture, slightly bitter taste, and ability to absorb bold flavors.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The results left the Republicans reduced, bitter and more desperate than ever for a new hero.
    Peter Goldman, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024

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“Funeral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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