How to Use pallbearer in a Sentence

pallbearer

noun
  • The pallbearers had bags on their heads.
    — Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Basil’s son, Kevin Basil, was one of his cousin’s pallbearers.
    — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The temple was quiet as her casket was rolled out by the pallbearers.
    — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz and, Miami Herald, 14 May 2024
  • Bill Shanker, one of the pallbearers at the funeral asked him.
    — Caitlin Keating, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2017
  • The rabbi chants the prayer for the dead; six pallbearers lift the coffin and take it out to the waiting hearse.
    — David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Khamis told us about passing men and women who carried the sick on their shoulders like pallbearers.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
  • It’s been reported that all of the pallbearers are expected to be okay.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Bush’s eight grandson served as pallbearers, carrying the casket out of the church.
    — Hamza Shaban, Philly.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Collier was supposed to serve as a pallbearer at the funeral.
    — Zach Murdock, courant.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Four pallbearers brought the casket inside the church, as attendees looked on.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Crane pointed out the one on the left and turned to face the onetime presidential pallbearer.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • When the pallbearers began shoveling the dirt into the grave, the top of the box collapsed.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Eight of Bush’s grandchildren served as pallbearers, wheeling her coffin out of the church.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Thirty-year-old Ronald Banks, who was a pallbearer, was fatally shot.
    — Christine Pelisek, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025
  • In the rows next to them sat nearly 50 firefighters, 10 of whom were pallbearers.
    — Kelly Brennan, Philly.com, 11 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
  • Reportedly, one of the pallbearers in this event spent $3K to have the casket shipped overnight.
    — Matt Levine, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
  • One of the victims, 30-year-old Ronald Steven, was a pallbearer, police said.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 June 2023
  • Donald Reed, a fellow Boy Scout, served as a pallbearer for one of the victims.
    — Steve Bowersox, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2024
  • After the service ended, Donovan, one of the pallbearers, helped lift the casket.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • As a military band played, pallbearers carried out the coffin past mourners kneeling in respect.
    — Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Garcia, who wears a pin with Akins' initials on his hat at tournaments, served as a pallbearer at the funeral along with Brees.
    — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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