1
: a small chest or box (as for jewels)
2
: a usually fancy coffin
casket
transitive verb
Examples of casket in a Sentence
bought a beautiful casket when her grandmother died
a small casket of jewels
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The photos showed Kerry and her siblings, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., by their mother's casket.
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Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
That means the bodies are not embalmed, and are buried in biodegradable caskets.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 23 Nov. 2024
Felder and his team met the plane at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and moved the casket to an ambulance.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
At his funeral, my cousins displayed an Ohtani jersey near his casket.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
That means the bodies are not embalmed, and are buried in biodegradable caskets.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 23 Nov. 2024
Felder and his team met the plane at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and moved the casket to an ambulance.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
At his funeral, my cousins displayed an Ohtani jersey near his casket.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Casket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/casket. Accessed 8 Dec. 2024.
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