Sentence examples for funeral began from inspiring English sources

Her funeral began that evening.

"I stand here and I am still scared," Dora Persano murmured in the crowded churchyard before the funeral began.

Before the funeral began, officers attending gave mixed responses when asked about such police protests.

The funeral began at 10 a.m. and ended at 1 p.m.

The second funeral began in the early afternoon, at the Kol Tikvah Synagogue.

Shortly after the funeral began on May 27, the military authorities abruptly called a halt to ceremonies.

Planning for a state funeral begins the day a president is inaugurated, said retired Lt. Gen. Guy C. Swan, who commanded the U.S. Army military district of Washington and oversaw Ford's memorial.

Another pauper's funeral begins at the City of London crematorium at 3.30pm, a ceremony for an ex-railway worker who became homeless after being made redundant, and died with no family.

"You're still alive in alternate universes, Theo, but I live in the real world, where this morning you're having an open-casket funeral," begins this achingly sad young-adult novel narrated by a young man whose first love and best friend has died.

His coverage of the funeral begins with a description of the casket and mourners filing in and ends when "family members shovel earth into [the] grave".

The funeral begins and, wrapped in a blanket, the baby is laid to rest on top of a banana leaf in the shallow pit.