hearse

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Recent Examples of hearse Residents knelt in silent tribute as hearses carrying the victims passed by on their way to a military cemetery outside the city for burial. Yehor Konovalov and Katie Marie Davies, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2024 Fakir’s casket was carried to a white Cadillac LaSalle hearse — the same vintage vehicle that once transported his close friend Aretha Franklin — and he was laid to rest Friday afternoon at Woodlawn Cemetery. Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024 Prince Philip had been highly involved in planning the arrangements, down to a customized Land Rover hearse and the music including the Royal Navy Hymn, a nod to his military roots. Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024 Then, as preparations for Friday's funeral began, funeral homes and hearse drivers allegedly received threats. Nick Spicer, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hearse
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  • For instance, the young woman interred in burial 211 described above is one of several women and children buried with stone axes at the site, upending the notion that axes only belonged to Stone Age men.
    Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Dignitaries and longtime residents gathered under gray skies at the memorial to Katrina’s victims in a New Orleans cemetery where dozens who perished in the storm but were never identified or claimed are interred.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
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  • As the late historian Barry Rubin documented in his biography of Arafat, the Palestinian leader used a variety of methods, both buying off and burying his opponents.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Early in the novel, Harold points out that authors are constantly looking for ways to bury their true beliefs in their text, rather than state them outright.
    Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • In order to become proper Chinese third graders—to go all the way from Heaven to tomb—Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred characters.
    Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023

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