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hearse

[hurs] / hɜrs /


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A hearse driver lost his argument that the corpse in back was a passenger.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

After it’s confirmed in the hospital that she’s gone, we see Harold racing along a twisty turny road in his car, a Jaguar with a hearse top welded onto it.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2026

Paramedics and police officers stood at attention as the hearse passed.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

As their coffins rested in the hearse, we began to sing “Am Yisrael Chai,” the anthem of the Soviet Jewry movement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

I mused on the funeral day, the coffin, the hearse, the black train of tenants and servants—few was the number of relatives—the gaping vault, the silent church, the solemn service.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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