Sentence examples for wake attended from inspiring English sources

Rest assured, there are disorderly dinners at her family's home and a rowdy wake attended by Grandma Mazur at Stiva's Funeral Home, along with the usual high jinks from the colorful crooks and perverts Stephanie encounters on the job.

A wake is attended by people acquainted with the deceased, and a celebrity is, in a sense, a mutual acquaintance we hold in common with the world.

His wake was attended by hundreds of people ranging from the chief executive officer of Parade magazine, Walter Anderson, to "local merchants who loved him," his son said.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet A wake is attended by people acquainted with the deceased, and a celebrity is, in a sense, a mutual acquaintance we hold in common with the world.

Wake Forest had attended the Tangerine Bowl the previous year and was favored in the game against Tech.

Yet the Lottery employees are unlikely to work full days this week, as they have funerals and wakes to attend.

WAKE FOR LIMA David Ortiz of the Red Sox and Robinson Cano of the Yankees were among the people who attended a wake in Queens for the former pitcher Jose Lima, who died of a heart attack at age 37 last Sunday in California.

A few hundred people attended the wake and funeral in a long, narrow parlor.

When Mr. Henry's father died two years ago, many of his passengers attended the wake.

On Saturday, de Blasio, Bratton and New York governor Andrew Cuomo attended the wake for Officer Liu.

Several thousand attended his wake, held in an oddly appropriate place: the Court Jester.