coffin
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“I would leave the pitch in a coffin for him,” former Chelsea captain John Terry said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Some threw flowers onto the hearse carrying her coffin, which was draped in the Welsh flag and accompanied by a framed photograph of the singer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Or his opening of his dead wife’s coffin, without explanation, more than a year after her death?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Her symptoms sparked caution: she was isolated, medics wore personal protective equipment when treating her and when she died three hours later her body was carefully sealed in a coffin.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
With her son-in-law and the mayor of San Francisco, who happens to be a physician, standing by as witnesses, Phineas's coffin is uncovered and carried to a shed.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Dozens of mourners gathered in front of 44 coffins at the emotional service, as police announced that the death toll had risen to 46.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Before them stood 112 coffins containing bones and fragments of victims from the Abu Sharia and al-Hasayna families, two branches of the same Bedouin clan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
At a makeshift morgue set up in a port warehouse in La Guaira, hundreds of bodies were stored in white and black body bags and coffins waiting to be identified, an AFP correspondent reported.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Simon Helliar-Moore, an independent funeral director in Taunton, said the costs that come with a funeral such as a crematorium and coffins "go up every year".
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Bringing empty trunks down the attic stairs they sounded like coffins French Lick.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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