Sentence examples for funeral about from inspiring English sources

THERE was a whiff of a Mafia funeral about the latest summit in Brussels.

The Sergeant told about hunting in the Blue Ridge Mountains, about Thomas Wolfe's funeral, about girls he had met in Brazil and other places.

B1 Neediest Cases B4 EDUCATION B11 OBITUARIES A29 Mayor Beame's Funeral About 600 people crowded into the Park East Synagogue to pay tribute to Abraham D. Beame.

The Treasury reluctantly stumped up £500 for David Livingstone's funeral – about £38,000 today – though his biographers neglect to tell us what this sum covered.

Or, as some rival agents have suggested, did Steinberg, who spoke movingly at Thomas's funeral about doing anything he could to help the family, cross the line into greed?

She had written two memoirs after Instead of a Letter, one called After a Funeral, about an Egyptian writer and lover who moved in with her and then killed himself in her flat, and another called Make Believe, about a friend and lover who was a follower of Malcolm X and who was later murdered.

Isn't that what funerals are about?

Funerals had about as much meaning as a cloud rolling by.

An article last Sunday about the British rockers Graham Parker and the Rumour, who have reunited, quoted incorrectly from Mr. Parker's 2005 Christmas single "2000 Funerals," about the deaths of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The funeral was about essentials.

The direct costs for Baroness Thatcher's funeral were about £1.2 million, it was announced today.