Thesaurus results for CASKETS

caskets

noun

plural of casket

as in coffins

a boxlike container for holding a dead body bought a beautiful casket when her grandmother died

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as in bins

a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things a small casket of jewels

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Recent Examples of caskets Mortuary Manor visitors can also watch a horror movie projected onto the wall of the main sitting room while surrounded by caskets. — ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026 As the Kennedys look on, the crew moves the body bags into aluminum caskets used to transport human remains. — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 12 Oct. 2026 Iranian state media showed throngs of people gathered at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla, a large prayer complex in Tehran, visiting the family's caskets. — Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 6 July 2026 The caskets of his dead family members sat beneath Khamenei's, which had his black turban atop it, identifying him as a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. — Nasser Karimi, Arkansas Online, 5 July 2026 The caskets of his family members sat beneath Khamenei’s, which had his black turban atop it, identifying him as a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. — Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026 One tier below were the caskets of four family members who were killed alongside Khamenei, including his 14-month-old granddaughter, according to IRNA. — Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 3 July 2026 Branwell’s coffin was carried from the house and placed next to the other family caskets. — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026 Not far from the now empty home, stripped of the laughter and the innocent chaos of excited children that once filled every room and hallway with life, the three mothers, dressed in all white, sit side by side before the eight caskets. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 10 May 2026

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Noun

The group raised money for coffins by making and selling quilts.

— Sea Stachura, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026
Local authorities will cover the cost of the whole process — from new coffins or urns to headstones at the new sites.

— Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of coffins

Noun

First, ensure trash bins are tightly sealed and stored a few feet away from your home, since open waste easily attracts mice or rats.

— Emily Benda Gaylord, The Spruce, 1 Nov. 2026
And the city has removed many of the huge street-corner bins where Parisians are accustomed to dropping their empty wine and beer bottles.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of bins

Noun

While studying the tombs, the archaeologists found more than 1,000 cannabis seeds.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2026
Its paths stretch across 478 hilly acres, winding beside tombs belonging to iconic figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Leonard Bernstein.

— Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of tombs

Noun

Cardboard boxes of food items being stored directly on floor of dry storage area.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
In dozens of Associated Press interviews with people who cast ballots at advance polling places or drop boxes across the country, the angst was palpable, most sharply from those who oppose Trump but also from many who support him.

— Marc Levy, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of boxes

Noun

In almost every constellation of friends, at least a few were swiping and typing despite a state policy requiring devices be switched off and stored in lockers during school hours.

— Oscar Schwartz, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
The malicious system component silently installs apps that look like weather tools, app lockers and other everyday utilities.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of lockers

Noun

In the riverbed, towering bald cypress trees now stood at a lean, their branches swept back by a 30-foot surge of water and mud, their trunks still plastered with debris.

— Francesca D’Annunzio, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2026
The chips were made from trees killed in the 2020 Castle fire, an inferno that left thousands of acres of standing dead trunks.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

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