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
As it stood there, lifting its proud roofs and gables to the sky, it might have been its own funeral monument.
Old dandies with creaking joints tottered along Piccadilly to their certain doom; young clerks in the city, explaining that they wished to attend their aunt's funeral, crowded the omnibuses for Kensington and were seen no more; while my mother tells me that excursion trains from the country were arriving at the principal stations throughout the day, bearing huge loads of provincial inamorati. The War of the Wenuses
Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march. Times, Sunday Times
He had to bring forward an 11 o'clock meeting so that he could get to the funeral on time.
His savings were just enough to pay for a respectable funeral.
Just before the funeral, the undertaker came up to the elderly widow and asked: ‘How old was your husband?’
It is only right and proper that you should attend his funeral.
Lamptey attempted to reconcile with them and he acceded to his father's dying wish to reconvert to Christianity, but he was pained at the funerals when he 'had to bury them both alone'.
She put on a histrionic display of grief at her ex-husband's funeral.
The only mourners at her funeral are the women from the refuge.
Young people meet at funerals, weddings, churches, and school socials.
And she that is by them iudged to haue borne her self beste in that behaulfe, and to haue bene dierest to her husbonde: she in the beste maner and moste gorgeous that she can deuise, triumphing and reioysinge, getteth her vp vpon the funeralle pyle wher her housebandes corps lieth ready to be brente, and ther kissinge and embrasinge the deade body, is burned together with her housebande. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
An elaborate send-off for the dead was also a social event, because a lavish funeral reflected on the living.
The entire BBC Local Radio network in England will broadcast the funeral live.
Medici_, published in 1642, and _Hydriotaphia; or, Urn Burial_, 1658, a discourse upon rites of burial and incremation, suggested by some Roman funeral urns, dug up in Norfolk. Brief History of English and American Literature
Lamptey attempted to reconcile with them and he acceded to his father's dying wish to reconvert to Christianity, but he was pained at the funerals when he 'had to bury them both alone'.
Described by some reviews as a bonkbuster, it's a light-hearted expose of the funeral industry set in Birmingham.
Oh, and by the way, the funeral for my sons is in 2 weeks, if you come, bring some chips/dip, for I will not be catering. Sleeping Grizzly Bear Bean Bag
The loud checks of his ample suit made the bookies appear attired for a funeral.
Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
She pressed ministers to review funeral service costs and has tabled a bill aimed at tackling the problem. Times, Sunday Times
The Baiga dearly loves the common country liquor made from the mahua flower, and this is consumed as largely as funds will permit of at weddings, funerals and other social gatherings, and also if obtainable at other times. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
Two weeks after his funeral she was asked to try out for the British bobsleigh team. The Sun
Straight after the funeral the undertaker gave us all the paperwork and had it in a folder for us, and said this was for our keeping, just to look at later.
But if he thought the gloss had been taken off his status as a global celebrity he might have been gratified to learn that after his death the procession that followed his funeral bier was more than half a mile long.
He let her lead him down the beach, arm in arm, chattering on about her friends, his old friends, weddings, funerals, and graduations.
I have planned both a full Catholic mass, and a smaller, personal service in a funeral home chapel.
The most important item will be a painted silk armorial hatchment from his state funeral car. A Home and Its Love Story
There's the monkey funeral out there in one of the windows of the north nave aisle and this in here.
The bishop, as spiritual elder, officiates at baptisms, weddings, communions, funerals, ordinations, and membership meetings.
Brethren of St. Francis and their clients, which still roughen the pavement of Santa Croce at Florence, and recall the varnished polychrome decoration of those Greek monuments in connexion with the worn-out blazonry of the funeral brasses of England and Flanders. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
These when a funeral happeneth, make vnto him that is doer for the deade, an estimate of the exequies in writing, whiche the doer may at his pleasure enlarge or make lesse. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
When you prearrange your funeral, you can pick your own flowers and music.
More than 100 cars, 10 black and white limos and a jazz band followed and up to 500 people attended the funeral at the Conservative Club, of which he was member.
Bishop Silvester officiated at the funeral.
More than half of people request a specific song to be played at their funeral. Times, Sunday Times
His funeral was held in a marquee in the garden. The Sun
Jokes spring up where you would most and least expect them-in a frat house bedroom during a blowout party, or at an octogenarian's funeral.
People were late for work, meetings were delayed, funerals were missed and business was affected.
The funeral was a fitting tribute to a wonderful man but it has lost me my family. The Sun
Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
She slightly disapproved of the way people go to funerals to be sociable. Times, Sunday Times
There was a huge funeral for him in California, and many many many SEALs turned out to honour their fallen brother-in-arms. A Real Life Hero
He had immediately made the perilous journey - just to see to my funeral!
A "dirge" is a funeral or mourning song, so perhaps this is meant literally ... or, perhaps, this is a reference to some of the new American Pie - Program Notes
A funeral minister and three council workers fooled around in a room where families say final farewells to loved ones. The Sun
The daughter of the surviving sister drove some distance to be present for the visitation and funeral, thinking about how sad her mother would be, how she would miss those weekends with her sister.
She had not shed a single tear during the funeral.
His mind turned to the bull-necked thug on duty in front of the church the day of the funeral, but he dismissed the idea. AMAGANSETT
He worked for a while in a funeral parlour, and then on a cattle ranch. Times, Sunday Times
He was rearrested when he sneaked back into Finland for his father's funeral.
Journalists stayed away from the funeral out of consideration for the bereaved family.
Then he thinks about the funeral which he can't attend as he might be asked to say something, and you know, thawken uf hawf wif uh mowf fuff ov pubbuhs. Nick Mamatas' Journal
Before a funeral at the home, it is necessary for some member of the family to receive the relatives from the distance, and the very intimate friends, and see that they are given necessary refreshment, and their return to trains, if they must leave immediately after the funeral, thoroughly understood by the hackmen. The Etiquette of To-day
Believe it or not, this guy actually is a mortician, running a lucrative funeral business in Richmond, Virginia!
Some of the objects were miniatures especially made for the funeral, and many were deliberately broken, with only a portion interred in the cinerary urns, with the rest perhaps kept as mementoes for the living, he added. Anglo-Saxons honored their dead with mundane household objects
Seamus was a grand gentleman who commanded great regard in the community Funeral obsequies will be published later.
And he said a local undertaker had told him he had arranged at least four funerals after fatalities on that stretch of road over the last 20 years.
Funeral services for Adela Clara Sehon Pinkert, 86, of Levelland, will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 30, 2009 at St. Michael's Catholic Church of Levelland with Rev. Martin Pina officiating and concelebrant Rev. Joseph Kurumbel, S.B. and Deacon Leo Cottoneir asssiting. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines
Both Mercedes and Auto Union sent senior figures to the London funeral and the flowers started to arrive.
We went to the funeral of a kindergarten teacher. WALKING THE BIBLE
His funeral was attended by the principal officers and men of the naval and military forces and of the Marines. Times, Sunday Times
Four or five times every week, Whitfield says, the Memorial Ladies and the guardsmen are the only witnesses at funerals of veterans who were homeless or outlived immediate relatives. Chron.com Chronicle
Coca - Cola parties in Georgia, the chitterling strut in North Carolina, cooking for the threshers in Nebraska, a Choctaw funeral, and a Puget Sound Indian salmon feast. ‘The Food of a Younger Land’
Flash back colleagues carry Wayne Edwards' coffin at his funeral in January.
Fans were kept away from the funeral and cannot visit the crypt. The Sun
The suicide blast targeted the funeral of a Shia Muslim man who gunned down on Thursday.
A funeral is a sombre occasion.
The priest wore a purple vestment to conduct the funeral services.
If you are one of the resort's pool of bankrupt songwriters but still have grave interests and tendencies, think about turning to writing dirges for funerals.
They offered to help and they organised the wake after the funeral.
The schoolgirl's popularity was reflected in the scale of the attendance at both the removal of remains from her home on Friday night and her Funeral Mass and burial on Saturday afternoon.
The funeral was a fitting tribute to a wonderful man but it has lost me my family. The Sun
The prince will not be crowned until funeral rites for his father are completed, which could take a year. Times, Sunday Times
A handful of profiteers, cashing in on this occasion to barter superstition, are ready to tout articles relating to funerals.
I can't turn up at a funeral in a pink jacket. What an idea!
When you prearrange your funeral[Sentence dictionary], you can pick your own flowers and music.
The funeral cortège was led by a lone piper and flanked by a guard of honour.
I'll smile quietly to myself at his funeral today when I recall some of our dafter escapades.
“People want one-stop shopping, so they look to funeral directors for that kind of help,” explained Koth. The Truth About Grief
Besides, it is highly unlikely that a murderer would attend his victim's funeral.
The minister said her funeral would be held at the Methodist Church, on Friday, at 11 am, before a committal ceremony at York Crematorium.
To see a funeral car hit a pub is something very unusual. The Sun
At the funeral of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792, his body was borne to its resting place in St Paul's Cathedral by no less than three dukes, two marquesses, three earls, a viscount and a baron.
Hundreds of mourners attended the teenager's funeral last week.
Jacob Dolan, sheriff in and for Garrison County for four years, beginning with 1873, remembered the summer of 1875 to his dying day, as the year when he tore his blue soldier coat, and for twenty-five years, after the fight in which the coat was torn, Dolan never put it on for a funeral or a state occasion, that he did not smooth out the seam that Nellie Logan McHurdie made in mending the rent place, and recall the exigencies of the public service which made it necessary to tear one's clothes to keep the peace. A Certain Rich Man
Notes: Utah G Jason Hart was excused from the team to attend a funeral. ... USATODAY.com
On December 5, as dockworkers and cartage men on distant St. Pierre marked the last day of Prohibition with a funeral cortege led by French and American flags at half mast, Sam Bronfman was already sitting on the four hundred thousand gallons of whiskey in the Rossville warehouse that had been part of the deal. LAST CALL
The day after my father died, his rabbi came to talk to the family in preparation for the funeral.
As I did so the funeral bell rang out, and it came to me, as though the One above had spoken, that peace would be slain and His name insulted by all of you -- by all of you, Catholic and Protestant. The World for Sale, Volume 2.
A million people lined the route of the funeral cortège while millions more watched on television.
Widows in equatorial Africa actually wear sackcloth and ashes when attending a funeral.
Home visits, communion to the sick, and even funeral ceremonies were turned into evangelistic meetings.
To relieve anxiety about funeral costs, we will introduce a funeral payment of ￡600, available on request.
Her remains are resting in Sweeny's Funeral Home, with visitation 7-9 p.m. today.
There weren't many people at the funeral - just close family/relatives.
He also talked the family through the return of the body, the post-mortem examination and the funeral options. Times, Sunday Times
Before the Macedonian conqueror passed away, he left detailed funeral instructions, including - among other things - that he be embalmed in honey through a process known as "mellification. NPR Topics: News
Burial is commonly called interment It is frequently has a considerable price tag and unquestionably the most pricey part of a funeral We Blog A Lot
A war veteran was given a pauper's funeral after a care home manager stole his life savings. Times, Sunday Times
Another gem from this Steyn book: In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" - the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Random feeds from Syndic8.com
For instance, in the Odyssey, while Odysseus is away, Penelope keeps weaving and undoing and reweaving a funeral shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes; she is doing this to postpone a task she does not want, that of giving up on Odysseus and choosing from among her pesky suitors. Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
Fred Phelps and other family members who make up most of the Westboro Baptist Church have picketed many military funerals to draw attention to their view that U.S. deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are God's punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. Supreme Court OKs anti-gay church's picketing at funerals
The story ends at a funeral, hovered over by a surreal balloon, from which hangs a fancied female acrobat.
Silk gloves for the hands (ask at a funeral parlor), covered with wool gloves and toped with leather gloves or leather mittens (called choppers up north). Out Cold
"Facing critical shortage of musicians for military funerals, the Pentagon has approved the use of a push-button bugle that plays taps by itself as the player holds it to his lips."
Being a fanatic nonsmoker and health freak, he made us enact the ritual funeral of a cigarette end.
We remember well his sermon at the pope's funeral in Rome, how his words touched our hearts and the hearts of millions.
Unlike other funerals of known ANC leaders which are dominated by freedom songs, a church choir sang hymns for the activist.
Funeral marches abound in Mahler, and they don't always mean literal death.
Trust me - it's not comme il faut to wear a pink tie to a funeral.
She crawled closer to the funeral pyre, rejoicing in its warmth, and slept.
As in Italy, men continued to manifest anticlerical traditions and to attend church only on selected occasions, such as weddings and funerals.
The singer climbs, grim-faced, into the band's chauffeur-driven, people carrier as though he's about to join a funeral cortège.
The funeral was a very emotional experience for all of us.
Disencumbered of its books, the feudal turret had become warlike again and that Guer-mantes was more himself in death — he was more of his breed, a Guermantes and nothing more and this was symbolised at his funeral in the church of Saint-Hilaire-de-Combray hung with black draperies where the “G” under the closed coronet divested of initials and titles betokened the race of Guermantes which he personified in death. Time Regained
The funeral prayers took place after Friday prayers and roads were closed as police re-routed traffic away from the mourners.
Two weeks after his funeral she was asked to try out for the British bobsleigh team. The Sun
Tearful colleagues in dress uniform formed a guard of honour for the funeral at the church in Todmorden Road yesterday.
A number of people from Castlerea journeyed to Manchester for the funeral.
She keened for a long time at her mother's funeral.
The Queen was represented at the funeral by the British ambassador.
Lloyd and I have already seen the funeral director and we've set the funeral for Monday at 2 P. M. We decided not to have a reviewal. FAMILY BLESSINGS
In other days there were festal dances, and funeral dances, and military dances, and "mediatorial" dances, and bacchanalian dances. The Abominations of Modern Society
Even so, shortly after the funeral she began to forget Reeves's final decrepitude and to cherish earlier memories. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
he requested time off to attend his grandmother's funeral
He had a deep-seated loathing of the panoply of the Victorian funeral: mummers, mutes, plumes, palls, and all.
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. Jerry Seinfeld
If you're interested in ham hocks, cornbread, southern funeral repasts, and the history of soul food, she's the expert.
The Cocopa and the Hopi respectively exemplify extremes of emphasis and of de-emphasis in the observance of funeral rites.
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of the two boys.
But what if Interstate 57 looks decidedly Roman or Subcontinental — or imagine a hysterical combination of a Hindu cremation ritual, a New Orleans jazz funeral march, Jim Crace's quivering, and a High Baroque Requiem mass plus the nonstop visual, aromatic and aural assault from this thanatological mixture. Archive 2006-02-01
I did not attend the funeral.
She pressed ministers to review funeral service costs and has tabled a bill aimed at tackling the problem. Times, Sunday Times
He does not, it must be said, match one's idea of a funeral director, being neither gaunt nor sepulchral.
Most preferred to remain as a supplier to the trade, others advertising their ability to furnish funerals in addition to their daily trade.
He was survived by his niece Myrsene and his older brother Evangelos, who was bestowed the writ of condolence from the mayor of Athens on behalf of the nation at the funeral. Odysseas elytis | calendar of an invisible april « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The 85 minutes of laboured monologues and unconvincing heroism are as entertaining as a pet's funeral.
Flags were at half-mast everywhere on the day of the king's funeral.
MacDonald was attending the funeral of an aunt in Sussex.
In Britain, regulars and the part-time yeomanry, though placed at the disposal of local magistrates, disgraced themselves by firing on the crowds at Peterloo in 1819 and at Queen Caroline's funeral in 1821.
An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan.
Sing up , fellows, this is supposed to be a celebration, not a funeral!
Wax masks were worn by Roman actors in funeral processions and were kept in a special shrine in Roman houses.
People attend the funeral and cremation of a Buddhist monk.
He did not greet or talk to anyone. We went straight to the funeral parlour.
After the funeral, Cpt Guy's body was interred in Skipton cemetery at a private ceremony.
The funeral will be carried out this afternoon at 3.00.
An actual initiation was, of course, out of the question; on the other hand a _catabasis_, a descent into Hades, was part of the epic inheritance he derived from Homer, and this, like the funeral games in the fifth book, he might use with an earnestness of purpose wanting in Homer, to work in with the great theme of his poem, not merely as an artistic effort. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
The funeral was a sepulchral mix of tears, pain, and black clothes.
Woven mats, often fringed with brightly colored wool, are used as gifts at the funerals of relatives.
The staff, dressed in their work clothes as chefs, maids, butlers, groundsmen and gamekeepers, removed their hats as the funeral cortège slowly passed.
When he died at the age of eighty-four, twenty thousand people, the largest assemblage Philadelphia had ever seen, watched his funeral procession.
I know not whether it is from the temper of the people, grave and enthusiastic as it certainly is, or from the recollection of the ancient Catholic opinions, when the funeral rites were always considered as a period of festival to the living; but feasting, good cheer, and even inebriety, were, and are, the frequent accompaniments of a Scottish old-fashioned burial. The Bride of Lammermoor
The state funeral for Reagan was a beautiful, moving service and I'd like to just leave it at that.
Meanwhile, more than 300 mourners attended Clare's funeral, at St George's Church, to remember the life of their friend and colleague.
In many countries, it is the/a convention to wear black at funerals.
I hope you will behave with decorum at the funeral.
The project team recruited potential study participants by working with churches, community and fraternal organizations, funeral homes, African American businesses, and universities.
The funeral will be held next Friday.
The great photographer and documenter (gallery) of West London Charlie Phillips documented many black funerals at Kensal Green: somehow the black and white photos seem to emphasise the coldness of the ground in which people born under a warm Caribbean sun were buried. January « 2009 « Squares of Wheat
She had a simple funeral, as she had requested.
The pigeon hopped away and Sara was forced once more to turn her attention back to the funeral.
She was in a bad way after the funeral.
A man whose brother disappeared 11 years earlier learns conclusively from a photograph, seen just after his mother’s funeral, that his brother is still alive. Paperback Writer
In his first sentence he stated that the funeral was a graveside burial and gave the time and place.
They want the funeral to be as low-key as possible.
Friends and family later attended the funeral service at The Knowle, followed by cremation at Oakworth.
I came back for my brother's funeral, and I wore my collar and tie.
And in any case the narrowing is pretty slight, if speech within 1000 feet of the funeral qualifies as physical proximity. The Volokh Conspiracy » Short Essay on Snyder v. Phelps, Part V: The Intrusion Upon Seclusion Tort
So on Thursday I attended his rosary and today I was a pallbearer in his funeral. Col Walter
His wiry form was scrubbed and dressed in garb that young men normally wear only to funerals and for appearances before the headmaster. Times, Sunday Times
Other attractions around the town will include a display at Keighley Shared Church of the town's original register of weddings, baptisms and funerals, and a letter from John Wesley.
Police colleagues formed a guard of honour at her funeral.
I was in a phone box when the funeral cortege went past, I saw it through the glass. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
After the wake, a morning funeral was held, complete with a mass in church, and then the body was taken to the cemetery for burial.
Last night the site seemed the most feasible funeral option. The Sun
Funeral customs vary with different religions.
But then he added, `We'll let the company treat us, and I'll tell you all about how to preplan and prefinance your mother's funeral. NO BODY
The family could not believe that the body was considered to be that of a derelict at the funeral home.
There was without doubt a dog who followed its master's funeral procession and hung around the graveside from 1858 to 1872.
A funeral procession filled the street.
(Woden's last words to Balder are famous); the riding round the pyre; the eulogium; the piling of the barrow, which sometimes took whole days, as the size of many existing grass mounds assure us; the funeral feast, where an immense vat of ale or mead is drunk in honor of the dead; the epitaph, like an ogham, set up on a stone over the barrow. The Danish History, Books I-IX
A funeral is a sombre occasion.
Lady Florimel wept incessantly for three days; on the fourth she looked out on the sea and thought it very dreary; on the fifth she found a certain gratification in hearing herself called the marchioness; on the sixth she tried on her mourning, and was pleased; on the seventh she went with the funeral and wept again; on the eighth came Lady Bellair, who on the ninth carried her away. Malcolm
There is a fear former miners and unionists may try to disrupt the funeral by chanting and hanging offensive banners. The Sun
The hundreds of mourners who attended Jennifer's funeral mass heard Patricia read the tribute before the service began.
The St George Chapel has witnessed christenings, weddings and funerals, and has given comfort to the Defence community in times of conflict and peace.
A single funeral site can be worth many Spanish pesetas, enough to feed a family for a lifetime.
We sense this as he remonstrates at one point by cellular phone with his parents in Tehran about a funeral at which he should be present, yet which he will have to miss, on account of his work, except for the seventh day of mourning.

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