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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The mom and her two young sons were buried together in one casket and all three were eulogized by Yarden Bibas, husband to Shiri and father to Ariel and Kfir.
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Rachel Wolf, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2025
Eubanks first posted a screenshot of the article with several casket emojis on the screen, before offering her opinion on what reality star Jason Isaacs’ White Lotus character sounded most like.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
The caskets were first handed to the Red Cross then transferred to the Israeli military, whose soldiers draped the coffins in Israeli flags and brought them into Israel.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
The second is a casket carrying the bones of Sister Jenny, a nun who disappeared 20 years earlier, after abandoning the convent to run a women’s shelter in Bangkok.
—Lauren Christensen, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
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Rachel Wolf, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2025
Eubanks first posted a screenshot of the article with several casket emojis on the screen, before offering her opinion on what reality star Jason Isaacs’ White Lotus character sounded most like.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
The caskets were first handed to the Red Cross then transferred to the Israeli military, whose soldiers draped the coffins in Israeli flags and brought them into Israel.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
The second is a casket carrying the bones of Sister Jenny, a nun who disappeared 20 years earlier, after abandoning the convent to run a women’s shelter in Bangkok.
—Lauren Christensen, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Casket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/casket. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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