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How to use casket in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, verb

Casket means a little box, e.g. for jewellery. Example: “This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.”

More sentences with casket

  • This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot…. From the entry nope
  • The maliciousness of this gossip is directly proportional to the distance from the casket and the bereaved.2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 252. From the entry maliciousness
  • Her seven-year-old brother Justin sat on my lap beside her casket.2008, Rita T. Kohn, William Lynwood Montell, Always a People: Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indians. From the entry sissy
  • Kevin, one of the first buddies in Boston lies calmly, very thin in the casket.1988 February 14, Marea Murray, “Friction Between The Factions”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 11. From the entry flash
  • Jeff unconsciously reached out to touch the pewter casket, but was intercepted by the mother.1986, Craig G. Harris, “Cut Off from Among Their People”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 64. From the entry freezing
  • It had been for this reason that his casket was moved here for temporary rest.1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development, volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 558. From the entry Fuhsing
  • Once they dragged the man to the open metal casket, two of the underpriests stepped in to help secure him.2007, Leigh Grossman, The Green Lion, page 174. From the entry underpriest
  • I instructed my staff to wait, saying that none of us should leave until the casket was off and Mrs.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16. From the entry deplane
  • He gives everything that the most morbid taphologist could suggest, beginning with “splendidly carved full-size oak casket, with black ivory handles.1913–1915, Rupert Brooke, “New York (continued)”, in Letters from America, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, […], published 1916…. From the entry taphologist
  • Other red flags raised by investors surrounding Cotten's death included his name being spelled incorrectly on the death certificate and his closed casket funeral.2022 January 18, Cassie Williams, “Quadriga CEO's widow speaks out over his death and the missing crypto millions”, in CBC News. From the entry closed casket
  • After another brief funeral rite at Tzu Hu, the presidential casket was laid on the catafalque in the central hall of a temporary “mausoleum” and sealed with marble slabs.1976, “China Yearbook 1976”, in The Hallmark, Taipei: China Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 2. From the entry catafalque
  • She went straight into high-sterics, and no wonder; any Christian would, and a Christian Emmeline is, though a meecher from her cradle and will be to her casket.1923, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, The Squire, page 65. From the entry meecher
  • When thou dost feel anger (a quality of the lower man) boiling up within thy soul’s casket, quickly turn and throw thineself upon the breast of silence.1902, Light, page 145, column 2. From the entry thineself
  • Clad in crisp white churchwear, Lamar frolicked with a congregation, first in a hearse and then in a wheat field, as he led a casket to a sun-drenched resting place.2017 July 26, Doreen St. Félix, “The Autofictions of Kendrick Lamar”, in The New Yorker. From the entry churchwear
  • Like the one aspread on the casket, she may have thought, and she could almost feel it, properly folded, weighing on her hands when the coffin was out of sight.1995, John B. Sanford, A Book of American Women (page 22). From the entry aspread

Meaning of casket

  1. noun A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
  2. noun An urn.
  3. noun A coffin.

Full definition of casket

Questions about casket in a sentence

How do you use casket in a sentence?
Casket is used as a noun and verb. For example: “This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.”
What is a short sentence with casket?
“Her seven-year-old brother Justin sat on my lap beside her casket.”
What does casket mean?
Casket means a little box, e.g. for jewellery.

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