Sentence examples for pallbearer from inspiring English sources
The word 'pallbearer' is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to a person who helps to carry a coffin or casket during a funeral or memorial service. Example: The six pallbearers solemnly carried the heavy casket down the church aisle, their faces filled with grief and respect for the deceased.
noun
One who carries a corner of the pall over a coffin or casket.
Thanks to the cameras, it was possible to glimpse all sorts of revealingly human moments: the sweat on the brow of a pallbearer after piloting the coffin up the steps of St Paul's; the sudden, muttered aside of the Queen to the Duke of Edinburgh as the coffin itself passed by; the concentration on the face of a boy-treble as the choir sang the anthem from the Fauré Requiem.
Reactions to the speech in the bond market suggest they now do.Permission to be rather beastlyIn one speech, the dark-clad Mr Osborne has leapt from boy wonder to national pallbearer, and all credit to him.
"In fact he asked me if I would be a pallbearer at his funeral, which [in 1969] I did".
After the ceremony, the tiny white casket bearing a wreath of white flowers was carried by a single pallbearer to a waiting car.
Still, it wasn't the coffin or the Justices that drew the attention of the television cameras but, rather, the second pallbearer on the left, Roberts.
And maybe more coaches will emulate Stan Van Gundy and start dressing like a pallbearer.
"Remember," Noah said now, observing the stained and indecipherable zone map on the back of the cab's front seat, "when you couldn't walk down a D.C. street without trees jumpin in your way and makin a nuisance of themselves?" He had been a pallbearer at Mrs. Waters's funeral.
Noah had been a pallbearer at his funeral.
From a presentation copy inscribed by T.S. Eliot to his sister on the day of its publication to an anthology of Hemingway's inscribed to his boxing coach (later a pallbearer at the author's funeral), association books have yet another layer of cultural value: that of social objects.
Colbert had also been a pallbearer at Mrs. Waters's funeral.
Foreigners scrutinised the seven pallbearers at Kim Jong Il's funeral in 2011, but none held real power, Mr Jang says".Dear Leader", which includes three personal poems, is a testament to Mr Jang's literary flair.
