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Sentence Examples Some members of the families wept as a military honour guard carried the coffins of the five into a specially erected marquee. Hundreds of green-draped coffins were ready for burial today, marking this tenth anniversary of the genocide. Rescuers used ropes to pull out the bodies, which were later washed, wrapped in plastic sheets and buried in wooden coffins. The dead are washed, wrapped in seamless shrouds, and buried in graves facing Mecca without coffins or markers. Up green hills and down dirt paths, he walks alongside flag-draped coffins to support grieving families, to comfort, and to mourn. This is the way dead heroes are supposed to come home, their coffins draped with the American flag, greeted by a color guard. The exposed dark wood of the coffins had degraded but they were basically undamaged. Some of the mummies were wrapped in linen and encased in sealed coffins and stone sarcophagi. These coffins are covered with a wood veneer which is removed before cremation or burial. He stood by as baskets of mutton and fish were lowered in together like coffins in a communal grave. They stand up, slowly, then pace their dispassionate bodies toward those two coffins, coffin-like boxes. Some bodies were found in rusty coffins, some as much as 10 years old, that had evidently been buried and then later disinterred. Heavy slabs had been laid atop the ground over their coffins to discourage body snatchers. Press stories often feature individuals who have already purchased their own coffins, or who have prearranged their own disposal. In fact, for many people, they couldn't even afford the fees of the gravediggers and their loved ones were buried with other coffins in a pile. Others rest in flag-draped coffins or come home strapped to hospital gurneys. All 34 bodies were placed in coffins and loaded onto military trucks for burial 100 meters from the airport runway. Funeral directors want to move a chapel of rest because people parking in front of the door are preventing them getting coffins in and out. Nine mummies were lying there, inside coffins which were partly covered, partly uncovered, and mostly bearing royal cartouches. You may still find dead people being buried without coffins, simply because relatives cannot afford to buy one. Show More Sentences We're not allowed to film coffins being offloaded at Dover Air Force Base, where the national mortuary is. The big steel gates opened again and a three wheeled motorcycle drove in pulling a low trailer upon which were perched two plain wood coffins. At the city morgue, workers nailed together coffins and put some of the dead in an ambulance to transport them to cemeteries. Dead persons are buried in coffins on the grounds of a church or are cremated and have their ashes buried in the graveyard. The film begins in an unnamed airport as five tiny coffins are loaded on to a plane. Some of them took with them their own coffins, knowing their life of witness would be brief. The Pentagon has put out another batch of official photographs of flag-draped coffins and honor guards, having long resisted, claiming invasions of family's privacy. The artist here sits in the foreground of the picture, his troubled head, larger than life and encircled in red, rises amid shrouded tables, which have the aura of coffins. Have a peek at Elvis, River Phoenix, Grace Kelly and Christina Onassis in their coffins. The coffins were then dug up and removed from the cemetery completely without ceremony. The Aborigines of Australia generally used coffins of bark, but some tribes employed baskets of wickerwork. Police helicopters circled above the crowds, as protesters carried giant vultures, carrots, coffins and effigies of Tory politicians. Other themes: plastic surgery, being measured for beds or coffins, Shiva morphing into a creature with an exoskeleton, and a mass grave. At one point Abramovic perches on a makeshift bed, with coffins lined up at the side, while Hegarty sings with his back to the audience. Bodies come back in flag-shrouded coffins, and the living and maimed are hailed as heroes with purpose. To rally the crowd, Bennett sang on a makeshift stage constructed out of dozens of empty coffins. Harry talks about the excise men being bamboozled by coffins being carried up the hill and across the moors containing, of course, smuggled booty rather than bodies. But in the library hall of the College of Fine Arts, one gets to see visiting cards, calendars and letter-heads with messages of death and pictures of coffins. In the upper register, at right, Anubis protects two deities lying in coffins surmounted by their ba-birds. The coffins were decorated with different colours according to the age of the deceased. Show More Sentences In their tree and scaffold burial the Indians sometimes used wooden coffins or travois baskets or simply wrapped the body in blankets. When a customer came in, Mr Albin Dyer and his companions would be shooed into the basement, with nothing but coffins and a candle for company. In response to growing demand, many undertakers now offer coffins adorned in the colours of clubs and national teams. Their terracotta funerary memorial, few have the urn-shaped phallic jars coffins, heads, vases or cylinders, the show. Bikinis made from purified fishing nets as well as coffins and memorial vessels for sustainable burials are also documented. As the images of tiny white coffins and vivid testimony from survivors went around the world, tragedy struck again. Some are like little cabinets of secrets, or imaginary rooms, cells or perhaps even coffins. How many more young Canadians will come home in coffins and how many more will be physically wounded or psychologically scarred? Our nation, quite rightly, comes to a standstill when four of our young men return in coffins from a foreign field. They dug holes and unearthed artifacts, even coffins, and later claimed to have found the ruins of the old church. Why should we pay honor to political authorities who just buy coffins to bury the dead? We must have the same state of mind as if we were entering our coffins at the end of our lives. It leaves torn-up bodies, bombed-out buildings, coffins, carcasses, and rivers of blood. They had imposed a strict blackout on media coverage of the coffins returning to Dover, claiming that it is was meant to protect the privacy of the slain soldiers' families. The vampire at the heart of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night neither sparkles nor sleeps in coffins. Pictures of pets, pictures of relatives in coffins, pictures of intimate moments otherwise discarded in the recesses of memory. Built in the 19th Century, the crematorium is helping red-faced funeral directors tackle the problem of heavyweight clients' custom-built coffins. It is also likely, as period accounts proposed, that the unusually tight hermetic seal of the four coffins and outer masonry helped to preserve the remains. Around him, wailing women collapsed over the coffins of the dead. A procession of tiny white coffins bearing the bodies of three young brothers who died when a fire engulfed their home brought tears to those present. Show More Sentences More traditional-minded people in China sometimes like to rest their dead in coffins, but the bodies are subsequently cremated without the coffins. The first of the funerals is expected to take place today and the city's main cathedral will be given over to the coffins of the dead over the weekend. Some of the dead were buried in log coffins set in pits in the ground, others were placed on the ground surface and covered in logs or wooden frames. Woollen and seagrass versions are also favourites, and cardboard coffins and shrouds are other options. Woodland burial sites require eco-friendly containers, but these are also used in traditional interments. Thyme was also used as incense and placed on coffins during funerals, as it was supposed to assure passage into the next life. Researchers surmised that the bodies were entombed in wooden coffins originally, but only the iron nails remained. I also hope to be able to deal with the specific problem related to zinc coffins insofar as a coffin is obviously an essential element of the funeral director's services. After opening shrines, a stone sarcophagus, and mummiform coffins, they finally viewed the mummified body of Tutankhamon. Scotch whisky was hidden under altars, in coffins, and in any available space to avoid the governmental excisemen or revenuers. The Special Rapporteur was informed that in two different detention facilities in Baghdad prisoners are kept locked in metal boxes as big as coffins which are opened only 30 minutes a day. We cried when AGM guest speaker Stephen Lewis described women in Africa who were growing vegetables to feed their AIDS-stricken village, but also selling them to raise money for coffins. We wept over the coffins of our boys, Udi Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. Personal Standards have been used to cover the coffins of The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and The Duke of Windsor. There used to be long wooden crates used for building materials which the doctors would have ordered, and these would be used as coffins before there was plywood available. The mortality rate among those women is so high that the little funds they can raise must be divided between the costs of hospitalization and the purchase of coffins. Yawo Muslims do not use wooden coffins, but bury their dead by wrapping them in a calico sheet called sanda. Wreaths with messages of sympathy for the casualties were displayed on the coffins. And it doesn't take long before the machines packing these rooms begin to seem like wooden coffins, charmingly interring an earlier era's tastes and technologies. In the late 19th century U. S. inventors patented elaborate security coffins, equipped with windows, airholes, speaking trumpets and electric signals triggering bells. Throughout the region, however, certain features remained popular, such as long iron swords, lanceheads, heavy knives, and burial by flat inhumations in coffins or by covering the body with stone heaps. Show More Sentences A cavalcade with four coffins left Grozny on 28 December in the afternoon. My playground, carefully curated by my undertaker father, consisted of rooms full of gleaming coffins, the neon glare of brightly coloured embalming fluid bottles, and the bodies, always the bodies. Their ritual use is most notable in ancient Egypt, where the mummies of important persons were often enclosed in several human-shaped coffins and then deposited in large, rectangular wooden coffins or stone sarcophagi. Men of the Special Service, driving open, horse-drawn carts, shoved the sick on their stretchers onto the carts, next to and on top of each other, as though shoving so many coffins into a hearse. For the re-interment, GSA commissioned coffins from artists in Accra and Aburi, Ghana, made of wood and carved with figurative designs and symbols of the Akan people of West Africa. I want Canadians to form an opinion on the mission in Afghanistan, but I want them to form it with all of the information, not just the vision of flag-covered coffins coming home to Trenton. Nowhere will the political players be watched more closely than from Lampedusa, where the coffins of the 3 October victims have gone, but the memories linger. They entered and arrived at Loup de Foix's Oratory, climbed the ladders still up and discovered many people lying and asleep, almost petrified like in stone coffins. He left instructions for the sides of his and his wife's coffins to be removed so that their remains could mingle. If I digg'd up thy forefathers graves, And hung their rotten coffins up in chains, It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart. During the early 20th century it became increasingly common to bury cremated remains rather than coffins in the abbey. The task was even more challenging when it came to burying their dead, whose coffins had to be carried over rough ground and both up and down exceptionally steep hills. But the problem is many of the crematoriums in the area cannot handle large coffins so we have to look elsewhere to cater for families who come to us. On closer inspection the coffins seemed to be more like sarcophagi. The NGA commissioned an extraordinary work made up of 200 memorial poles, hollow log coffins painted by artists from Arnhem Land in the Australian Northern Territory. Elm wood is valued for its interlocking grain, and consequent resistance to splitting, with significant uses in wagon wheel hubs, chair seats and coffins. Diana, Princess of Wales, and more recently, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, had this standard draped over their coffins at their funerals. There is a some evidence that coffins were laid on top of the stone on their way to the cemetery in Kirkintilloch and that the stone has been somewhat worn away. This sarcophagus was found inside a burial chamber 11 meters below the ground, which contained another 30 mummies, wooden coffins, and limestone sarcophagi. In 1836 five boys hunting for rabbits found a set of 17 miniature coffins containing small wooden figures in a cave on the crags of Arthur's Seat. Examples from Classical Literature No coffins were to be used, corps93es were to be put in sacks and buried in quicklime. The Canopic jars and outer coffins belonging to it were still unpacked in the freight cases. The glazed ware was employed in tiling, and inlaying coffins and boxes, and in the making of various vases and cups. There are several stone coffins in the undercroft, and a good many fragments of carved stone, some of which are very fine. Iron coffins were also used by some persons to protect their friends from the resurrectionist. He glanced toward the wareroom where the black coffins stood in a row on wooden horses. He is a native of Hangchow, in Chehkiang, a city famous in China for its coffins. The coroner of Westmoreland county is ordering coffins by the carload. Chopin's funeral march was played as the coffins, draped in French flags, were carried from the building. However, they eked out their task with varnish stolen from new coffins at funerals, and it made them rather sick. I was talking to him right before the High Holidays and he said before Rosh Hashana he brought back the 11 coffins of athletes. When the Highwood River flooded in 1996, many of the coffins that floated into the river were retrieved and reburied. The two coffins were placed on trestles previously prepared for their reception in the right-hand crypt belonging to the Saint-Meran family. The chamber was quite empty save for the coffins in their niches, and some effigies in marble set at intervals about the walls. He proceeded to remove the rotting remains from their mouldering coffins. Find more words! 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