Sentence examples for last respects from inspiring English sources
noun
Final visit to a person nearing death, or to a person who has just died.
- I went to pay my last respects to my aunt, who has cancer.
We're waiting on to show our last respects to Madiba," said one bystander, Ebrahim Jeftha.
He presumed they were dead and was going to pay his last respects.
Now as I look back, I realize I might have been inadvertently paying my last respects.
They had come to pay their last respects to a fallen comrade.
Families and friends had been paying their last respects at all-night wakes.
She should have been given the last respects she so rightly deserved.
It's supposed to be one veteran paying his last respects to another veteran".
A handful of residents from the shelter came, and they solemnly paid their last respects.
True, President Clinton, Vatican emissaries and other dignitaries would need to pay their last respects.
Each time a body was carried out, workers lined up with heads bowed to pay their last respects.
Ann Niemczyk and her husband, Mark, were among those who came to pay their last respects to Davis.
