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the act of expressing respect for someone who has died
he paid his last respects by standing quietly at the graveside
How To Use last respects In A Sentence
- Nobody cared enough to give up a cargo to pay their last respects at the crematorium service. THE LAST TEMPTATION
- O'BRIEN: We're taking a look at Vatican City, which is now filling up with tourists, Monsignor, and pilgrims who have come out, obviously, to pay their last respects to Pope John Paul II, who is in dire, dire shape, as reports from the Vatican come to us. CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005
- We paid our last respects to the scholar.
- The teacher to whom Andy is trying to pay his last respects has written a book about Michel de Montaigne, a man who celebrated everything that was unpredictable and mutable about being human, who said: "Happy those who let themselves roll relaxedly in the rolling of the heavens. Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
- Family and friends spoke of his humour, drive and magnetism at the funeral service in the packed church where a small Dublin suburban community gathered to pay their last respects.
- The news or her passing was received with widespread regret as was endorsed by the large numbers of people who called to pay their last respects, offer sympathy to her family, attend the removal of remains, Mass and funeral.
- Also turning up to pay their last respects are Bud's sister Marguerite and her no-account son, Royce.
- He will lie here in state until early on Friday morning for the public to pay their last respects.
- he paid his last respects by standing quietly at the graveside
- Vijay TV's journalists thrust a camera on Jyotika's face when she had come to the crematorium to pay her last respects.