How to Use casket in a Sentence

casket

noun
  • Some hugged and sobbed by her casket.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2026
  • When those caskets came off that plane?
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Mar. 2026
  • And don’t place all of your eggs in one casket.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The hug was lying on the casket.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • What’s left in the casket tells us nothing about their lives.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Crowds lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the Queen's casket.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Svengoolie stands in his casket, about to say good night for now.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Clever lines drop down on these pages like flowers thrown on a casket.
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
  • But many of its young men who went off to fight have returned in caskets.
    — Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Brown's casket was open from the waist up and a thin veil covered his face.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
  • First, her casket is to be on view midweek on the steps of the high court.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Zeke Miller and Jonathan Lemire, Houston Chronicle, 22 Sep. 2020
  • At the center stood a small casket holding a girl about my age.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
  • His casket was lined with images of the blue cartoon dog.
    — Bracey Harris, NBC news, 28 June 2026
  • Vance then flew with his casket to Arizona.
    — Brett Samuels, The Hill, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Kirk's casket has been flown back to Arizona.
    — Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
  • At the foot of the hill, people cluster around an open casket.
    — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
  • When, where and how will they be cremated or put in a casket?
    — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Each attendee places a white rose on the casket to say final farewells.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Not one mob but two awaits him as his casket rolls out of the factory gates.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • When his casket shut closed and a hymn began, the room erupted in grief.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 31 May 2022
  • As the crowd reached the casket, many lifted their phones to snap a photo.
    — Colleen Barry, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Her casket was lowered to the strains of a lament from the queen’s bagpiper.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • His parents picked out a blue casket adorned with a bronze baseball and glove.
    — Kyle Werner, Des Moines Register, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Below, a white light shines out from behind the casket.
    — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Within the casket was a dog, an old slipper folded in its paws.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Another soldier makes the same trek and stands at the foot of the casket.
    — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Air Force Two touched down with his remains and casket on board.
    — Will Carless, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The casket of the patron saint of headache sufferers is about four feet long.
    — Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2025

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