hearse
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As the old saying goes, the hearse doesn’t come with a trailer hitch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Saturday's event saw thousands of people line the street as Tyler's hearse made its way down Newton Road in Mumbles, a seaside suburb of Swansea.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
A hearse driver lost his argument that the corpse in back was a passenger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Earlier, eight people in black, presumably Oseguera's family members, rode in two cars that followed the white hearse with his remains to the graveyard.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
By then they had loaded Big Joe into the hearse and the rest of us got into the limousines and we started up to Jackie Robinson Memorial Park.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
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As part of the outpouring of solidarity from Venezuelans, many private funeral homes have offered free hearses to transport the dead, and free cremations.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
The somber convoys of hearses and relatives crossed much of the battered Acapulco en route to the cemetery, passing ransacked stores, streets strewn with debris and soldiers cutting away fallen trees.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
The procession is set to feature about 200 motorbikes, two limousines, four hearses and eight Rolls-Royces.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2023
On Thursday, two hearses carrying the bodies of Woodard and Brown crossed the international bridge to Brownsville, where the remains were handed over to U.S. authorities.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
Judge William Lewis saw house after house in his neighborhood abandoned, saw the streets empty, saw the hearses constantly passing his home, and fled.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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