Sentence examples for casket I from inspiring English sources

(One explained why she wanted an open casket: "I didn't come all this way to spit on a closed coffin").

When my mother and I got to the casket, I could see my grandmother's face — powdery and calm.

Before they closed my father's casket, I left him with a gift.

When I looked at him in that casket, I tell you, it looked like to me he was smiling.

"So where were you in Africa?" Standing so close to my father's casket, I could smell the heavy perfume of the flowers.

As for the casket, I have a few special instructions: a sisal interior, because it's so unpretentious, and a translucent shell, so I don't clash with my iMac.

Here he is in tonight's documentary on the subject of the too prematurely dead: "I would not keep in stock an inventory of children's caskets; I'd order them, as the need arose, in sizes and half-sizes from two feet to five-foot-six, often estimating the size of a dead child, not yet released from the county morgue, by the sizes of my own children, safe and thriving and alive".

In my mind's eye, I saw martyrs, whose caskets I walked behind, and friends with whom I worked whoa are somewhere in poverty or dead.

"When I saw that casket close, I felt nervous," he said later.

I saw the casket before I reached it.

"I was leaning over the casket and I was talking to my cousin.