caisson

Example Sentences

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For years, members of the tiny preservation society — their ages now ranging from 60s to 80s — have flown out in helicopters, landing on the caisson.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2025

They saluted, too, as the flag-draped caisson, drawn by six gray horses, drew forward.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022

A band began Chopin’s funeral march, and a team of six black horses hitched to an empty caisson waited for its cargo.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

On November 11, 1921, the Unknown was placed on a horse-drawn caisson and carried in a procession through Washington, D.C. and across the Potomac River.

From Fox News • Oct. 4, 2021

Eads discovered that workers began experiencing the bends at sixty feet below ground, roughly half the depth to which a Chicago caisson would have to descend.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson