Sentence examples for sumptuous funeral from inspiring English sources
After his death Solzhenitsyn was given a sumptuous funeral and buried at the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.
There are truffles to gather and market days to attend, as well as a sumptuous funeral banquet for a murdered truffle master that surpasses any meal cooked up thus far in a series that always makes your mouth water.
The most sumptuous Viking funeral discovered so far is the Oseberg ship burial, which was for a woman (probably a queen or a priestess) who lived in the 9th century.
Though generally avert to excess, Netherlanders celebrated the birth of a child, the New Year, the purchase of a house, the departure or return of a family member, the wedding or funeral of a friend with a sumptuous feast, tinged with the tastes of India and the Spice Islands and washed down with the best wines from Spain, Italy, and France.
My money's on a feature-length funeral for Isis topped off with a quickie wedding for Cousin Isobel, with Rose's more sumptuous wedding left over until the Christmas episode, because there will be lots of disapproving-of-Jews going on from her mother before it can go ahead.
A sumptuous buffet followed.
The interiors were sumptuous.
Describes his sumptuous offices.
The setting is sumptuous.
