Sentence examples for closed coffin from inspiring English sources

After the ceremony, after the closed coffin had been put in its place in the hearse, everybody except those close enough to follow the dead and see her put into the ground would head for the after-the-service refreshments.

Mr. Gotti's closed coffin sat before rows of padded chairs.

Later, Benedict walked into the basilica to kiss John Paul's closed coffin.

Inside, a closed coffin was flanked by a poster for the book, and guests sipped Champagne.

The firefighters filed by the closed coffin in groups of three.

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

Last fall, when the longstanding Italian restaurant Giambone closed, a coffin company moved in.

But Mr. Bradley had barely closed the coffin on his Presidential campaign before he doused any speculation about a bid for Governor.

At his funeral, before they closed the coffin, she put her wedding ring on her dead husband's finger, and said to him "We will see each other very soon".

The next day, with the lid closed, the coffin was borne through jammed streets aboard a black hearse decorated with flags and black plumes and drawn by a team of 16 horses shrouded in black.

I spent a few minutes taking photographs, then I closed the coffin.