pallbearer

Example Sentences

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I’ve been a pallbearer like 15 times or something.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

Hannah said one of the rooms they used was where a pallbearer would "lower the coffins down before they would be cremated... obviously they don’t use it any more".

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2024

At the dog park, he turned strangers into fast friends, joining regulars for dinner and even serving as a pallbearer at one of their funerals.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

Kara-Murza had been a friend of Sen. John McCain and was a pallbearer at his 2018 funeral.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2023

And greatest is Rostam—a warhorse to Neptune, a pallbearer of the Nazarene.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri