[
US
/ˈfjunɝəɫ/
]
[ UK /fjˈuːnəɹəl/ ]
[ UK /fjˈuːnəɹəl/ ]
NOUN
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a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
hundreds of people attended his funeral
How To Use funeral In A Sentence
- The funeral will be held according to church.
- Our staff were asked to be bearers at his funeral service held at St Andrew's Church.
- Some smugglers even use wedding cars and funeral hearses as cover.
- And it was perhaps insensitive to try to sell pet funerals to distressed purchasers. Times, Sunday Times
- Thanks for all your support on the day of the funeral.
- As the family mourns and close relatives shave their heads, the body is transported to the funeral ghat (bank along a river), where prayers are recited.
- To relieve anxiety about funeral costs, we will introduce a funeral payment of £600, available on request.
- A monk will be hired to chant some Buddhist scriptures and perform a simple ceremony at the morgue instead of at a funeral parlor.
- In the end the keeners stalked the funeral processions screaming and shrieking all the more like vengeful banshees and had to be chased by the priests.
- To see a funeral car hit a pub is something very unusual. The Sun