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adjective

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Recent Examples of funeral
Noun
In coming weeks, the family will claim the remains, with plans to have a funeral on Memorial Day. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025 The suit seeks damages for medical and funeral expenses, as well as damages for pain and suffering. Dennis Romero, NBC news, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
Now the family is grappling with funeral arrangements for the young woman. John Annese, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2025 Their son Donny attended to all of the funeral arrangements with the help of his wife Jan, a nurse, and his daughters Andrea and Alicia. Phil Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for funeral
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funeral
Noun
  • Public observances for Carter are planned in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., alongside a private interment.
    Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
  • After the service, there will be a private interment at the Carter residence at 5:20pm.
    Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.
    David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
Adjective
  • This is a love story, after all, and one with a keen grasp of the mournful, curious glances between its two leads — of how much goes untranslated between them, and how much is conveyed.
    Sheri Linden, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • In a circular frame at the center of the screen, still images and footage of the deceased played over the swelling, mournful music in a static shot anchoring the four-and-a-half-minute segment, which was capped off by a final photograph of Hackman.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Read Next World Soldier unearths 2,600-year-old burial site, Greek artifacts in Ukraine.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Only a few miles from Selena's burial site, a monument opened in her honor on May 25, 1997.
    Jacqueline Weiss, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In the original visual, the Grammy winner plays a heartbroken character named Peaches who has all traces of her ex wiped from her hippocampus, an homage to Michel Gondry’s 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Seven Oaks parents ‘heartbroken’ Five Seven Oaks parents reached out to the Statesman to express disappointment with the removal of the bulletin board.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • To add to Ferrari’s woes, Hamilton was also disqualified from sixth as the rear skid block on his car failed to meet the minimum thickness requirement – a bitter pill to swallow for the Brit who had secured his first victory for the team in the sprint earlier in the weekend.
    Yara Elshebiny, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Some instant coffee is made with Robusta beans, which can be a bit bitter.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 23 Mar. 2025

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“Funeral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.

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