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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Flowers surrounded the baby girl's tiny casket inside the Lawrence Woodward Funeral Home in Crown Heights, as family members clutched each other and said their final goodbyes.
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Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
Thousands came to his funeral in Chicago, and his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on an open casket so the country could see the gruesome state of her son’s body.
—ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
Emma held a Chicago Bulls hat, the one her brother will wear inside his casket.
—Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 12 Apr. 2026
The partners were Robert Ray Hammond, a boat builder; William Dickerson Gaston, a boat dealer; Robert Alan Shoop, a casket dealer; and Guy William Woodward, an adhesives salesman.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 9 Apr. 2026
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Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
Thousands came to his funeral in Chicago, and his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on an open casket so the country could see the gruesome state of her son’s body.
—ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
Emma held a Chicago Bulls hat, the one her brother will wear inside his casket.
—Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 12 Apr. 2026
The partners were Robert Ray Hammond, a boat builder; William Dickerson Gaston, a boat dealer; Robert Alan Shoop, a casket dealer; and Guy William Woodward, an adhesives salesman.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Casket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/casket. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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