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Example sentences for: funeral

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The self-immolation of widows, known as sati — a widow becomes sati, a “virtuous woman,” by climbing onto her husband’s funeral pyre — has disappeared, but the monkey-god Hanuman and elephant-headed Ganesh are still idolized, and nobody will dare to deny the sanctity of the cow and all her products: milk, curd, butter, and dung, the last of which is used for fuel.
In fairness, the paper of record ran a wire-service picture on Wednesday's Page A-6 of flood-drenched South Korean mourners crossing over to a funeral in rowboats.
In 1996, a funeral service was held for de Gaulle’s archrival François Mitterrand here.
After the funeral, will food be served or do you need to bring a sandwich?
Imagine how clean a break it would have been to open the second season at Livia's funeral.