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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Then, instead of going to an L.A. cemetery to bury him, Athena and her children board a plane with Bobby’s casket and take him back to St. Paul, Minnesota to be buried with his first wife, Marcy, and his two children, Robert Jr. and Brooke.
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Jennifer Maas, Variety, 2 May 2025
At his funeral, his family placed the degree in his bronze casket before it was closed.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
Fellow soldiers, family, and friends, as well as a host of strangers, file past the open casket of Vasyl Ratushnyi at the sky-blue and onion-domed St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery.
—Howard Lafranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2025
His memorial service is set for Saturday morning at 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. ET) and his body will be buried at Rome's Basilica of Saint Mary Major in a simple wooden casket, per his request.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
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Jennifer Maas, Variety, 2 May 2025
At his funeral, his family placed the degree in his bronze casket before it was closed.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
Fellow soldiers, family, and friends, as well as a host of strangers, file past the open casket of Vasyl Ratushnyi at the sky-blue and onion-domed St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery.
—Howard Lafranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2025
His memorial service is set for Saturday morning at 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. ET) and his body will be buried at Rome's Basilica of Saint Mary Major in a simple wooden casket, per his request.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for casket
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“Casket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/casket. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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