How to use "funeral" in a sentence

'Are you coming to the funeral of General Lamarque?'

The day of his funeral was arranged for 5 June, and thousands of people saw this as a chance to make a public protest against the king and his government.

At first, the funeral went quietly

Sickened, grief-stricken, she had taken their advice, and Danny's funeral had been a closed-coffin service

After the initial shock, after the funeral, she had begun to cope with the trauma

Although the funeral had been more than a year ago, she had not yet been able to dispose of Danny's belongings

Shattered by the loss of his son, Michael had been irrationally vicious with Tina for months after the funeral, accusing her of being responsible for Danny's death

They cheered one another on those rare occasions when one of them hit a really large jackpot; and when one of them died, the others went to the funeral en masse

It was a closed-coffin funeral."

Because the mother hadn't seen the body in the funeral home, she just couldn't bring herself to believe her daughter was really dead

"And we reopened the grave only two months after the funeral, not a whole year later

Kevin's parents went away from the city immediately after the funeral, intending to spend a month at their summerhouse in the country, where they could be free from the press of business and social duties, the better to mourn their lost child

But Death decided that Kevin belonged to him, because the funeral had been held already and because the grave had been closed

"Danny's was a closed-coffin funeral

All the other parents were asked to identify their kids, even though some of the corpses were in such a horrible state they couldn't be cosmetically restored for viewing at a funeral

An undertaker in Reno prepared the body and shipped it here for the funeral

We'll just eliminate Bellicosti and set up a trap at the funeral home."

The long driveway curved up and to the right, like a width of black funeral bunting draped across the rising, snow-shrouded lawn

"I'm going to walk back to the funeral home

"If they've anticipated us, set a trap at the funeral home-"

Elliot and Tina climbed over the wall and stood in the tree shadows, studying the rear approach to the funeral home.

And if assassins were waiting here, they would expect their prey to approach the funeral home boldly, confidently

They reached the funeral home without incident.

He also knew that the funeral director had not killed himself

They hurriedly retraced their path, moving away from the funeral home

Evidently the people in the funeral home were not aware that their man outside had been eliminated

They figured there wasn't anywhere else we could go but Bellicosti's funeral home."

I had arranged to visit Mrs Protheroe to discuss the funeral arrangements, so I walked to Old Hall.

'Well,' I said, 'the funeral is tomorrow morning

'She wanted to discuss the funeral arrangements.'

Dr Goodricke registered the death, and my mistress made all the arrangements for the funeral

He told me that Count Fosco had accompanied the body from London and had gone to the funeral (which my uncle himself had been too ill to go to)

The people who had been at the funeral were all invited to come and see that Laura, Lady Glyde, was in fact alive and well