Sentence examples for final rites from inspiring English sources

It depicted "the prisoner visited by her friends", "the process of pinioning", the final rites being said, "hoisting the black flag", and finally "filling up the coffin with lime".

At her request, final rites will be private.

People sometimes leave behind odd requests for their final rites.

At the mostly liberal MSNBC, the morning host, Joe Scarborough, started preparing the final rites.

CERTAIN cultural phrases become so embedded in our subconscious that they will interrupt our own final rites.

With so many people exiting this world through a state-run system, the final rites can be rough and impersonal for those left behind.

And this is the last and most terrible lesson of the film: that there is one final rite of passage.

The genre: post-mortem portrait Post-mortem portraits were taken to commemorate the final rite of passage, death itself.

The final rite of passage, death, has brought about numerous festival customs, all the way from the ritual sacrifice of the widow in Hinduism (until the 19th century) to the commercialization of death rites in Western societies.

The address, known in Mexico as the Informe, was also a painful final rite for the one-party dynasty that has controlled Mexican politics for most of the last seven decades.

And now, in a final rite of passage, she was at the helm of the Lettie G. Howard, the historic 125-foot schooner that is her school's classroom-on-the-Hudson. Yes, she, Jennifer Mendez, 15, the girl from Brooklyn who used to be afraid of the water and everything related to it — fish, boats, bugs — was steering the Lettie up the river, along the Upper West Side.