On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Casket. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as box or coffin and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Casket meaning
- A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
- An urn.
- A coffin.
Using Casket
- The main meaning on this page is: A little box, e.g. for jewellery. | An urn. | A coffin.
- Useful related words include: box, coffin, jewel casket, enclose.
- In the example corpus, casket often appears in combinations such as: the casket, casket of, his casket.
Context around Casket
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 12 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Casket
- In this selection, "casket" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, open, batesville, closed, building, maker and funeral stand out and add context to how "casket" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 55 the casket maker closed and an open casket in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "casket" sits close to words such as achieves, ado and arisen, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with casket
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pelé's casket will be ushered through the before his burial. (11 words)
Inside the funeral home, Pelt's casket was draped in the city flag. (13 words)
Inside the cemetery gate, the casket was lifted above the crowd and carried toward the grave. (16 words)
Some of the customs include the presiding officer wearing a hat while doing his part in the service, the Lodge members placing sprigs of evergreen on the casket, and a small white leather apron may being placed in or on the casket. (42 words)
Rudolfo Naranjo, right, is overcome with emotions as he, his son Arley and others wheel the casket of his son Angel from the chapel to cemetery during funeral services at Palm Downtown Mortuary & Cemetery on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023, in Las Vegas. (42 words)
Pallbearers carry the casket of Sister Patricia Terry Holland, wife of Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in St. George, Utah, on Saturday, July 29, 2023. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
The company announced in August it had bought the former Batesville Casket building, which President Michael Blauer said will give the company visibility from Interstate 55. The casket maker closed there in 2017.
They stood in front of the casket with their eyes closed for a few moments, before Trump saluted the casket.
Some of the customs include the presiding officer wearing a hat while doing his part in the service, the Lodge members placing sprigs of evergreen on the casket, and a small white leather apron may being placed in or on the casket.
The viewing is either "open casket", in which the embalmed body of the deceased has been clothed and treated with cosmetics for display; or "closed casket", in which the coffin is closed.
This time, Khomeini's casket was made of steel, and in accordance with Islamic tradition, the casket was only to carry the body to the burial site.
A middle-aged woman decided to stop next to traditional grave on the way up and cried for one of the children, whose casket was being taken by a black van a few meters away.
At his funeral at a cemetery in Jerusalem on Thursday, soldiers prepare to lower into the ground the casket of a French-Israeli soldier killed in combat with Hamas militants.
Born on the city’s South Side, was 19 when he went to the open-casket funeral of Emmett Till, a Black teenage lynching victim.
He then has a son who is ripped from him by another best friend, and returns as a teenager who wants to kill him and literally sends him to the bottom of the ocean in a casket for months.
His casket, draped in the American flag, was carried by Ladder 10, the truck on which he served to St. Joseph Ukrainian Church.
His widow, Marcia Cibele Aoki, his third wife, whom he married in 2016, cried before his open casket as she reached out to touch his head.
Inside the cemetery gate, the casket was lifted above the crowd and carried toward the grave.
Inside the funeral home, Pelt's casket was draped in the city flag.
Mourners lined up to see Pele's body in an open casket in the center of the field at the Vila Belmiro stadium, home of the Santos Football Club.
Mourners look Friday into the open casket of Joe Walker at the East Auburn Baptist Church during his funeral.
Pallbearers carry the casket before the funeral for fallen Waltham Police Officer Paul J. Tracey in Waltham.
Pallbearers carry the casket of Sister Patricia Terry Holland, wife of Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in St. George, Utah, on Saturday, July 29, 2023.
Pelé's casket will be ushered through the before his burial.
Rudolfo Naranjo, right, is overcome with emotions as he, his son Arley and others wheel the casket of his son Angel from the chapel to cemetery during funeral services at Palm Downtown Mortuary & Cemetery on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023, in Las Vegas.
That was one of several lighthearted moments throughout the funeral that began in silence as a cloth covering was laid on his casket by family and friends.
Common combinations with casket
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the casket 87×
- casket of 20×
- his casket 19×
- casket was 17×
- casket and 10×
- open casket 10×
- casket in 9×
- in casket 9×
- casket with 8×
- casket will 8×