bier

Example Sentences

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As the Rotunda slowly emptied, as each person paid their final respects by simply being present and standing close to the bier displaying Sicknick’s remains, the end was much like the beginning.

From Washington Post

And judging from the image of her walking away from President H.W.’s bier at the Capitol rotunda, so does she.

From New York Times

Throughout, however, Shippey never shirks from pointing out how repulsive these macho men could sometimes be, as in his horrific account of a slave girl sacrificed on the bier of her dead master.

From Washington Post

Four are about to lift her bier — you can sense from their postures that they are anticipating its weight — while others whisper among themselves or stare in numbed sorrow.

From New York Times

The earth, it seems, has been randomly sampled and laid out on beds and biers and strange pedestals in a state of uncanny suspended animation.

From Washington Post