casket - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • jewel: In this way she will be enabled to keep in the family Miss Neville's fortune which consists of a casket of valuable jewels.
  • gold: His men carried off 26 caskets of gold and jewelry and burned what was left of Becket on a bonfire in the garden.

Converse of object

  • open: The mother was instructed to bury the body the next day and not to open the casket.
  • make: Development Coffins made in Haiti Making caskets in Haiti.
  • choose: So we chose a casket: then we could either scatter his ashes or inter them later.
  • carry: As they carry the casket toward the door, the husband cries out: " Watch that wall!
  • have: Do they have special caskets for internal organs, I wonder?
  • lock: On 10th October the Countess of Essex entrusted to Jane Daniell a locked casket of letters to the Countess from her husband.

Adjective modifier

  • silver: He was presented with a silver casket on a visit to his old school, King Edward VI Grammar School.
  • golden: He slid a long golden casket from its hiding place.
  • wooden: A great English vintage toffee tin, a printed faux walnut wood veneer to resemble a wooden casket or box.
  • lead: Recent discoveries at the site include what is thought to be the heart of Robert the Bruce, buried in a lead casket.
  • small: I will put the contents of your envelope in the small casket where I keep the things which have become sacred to me.
  • large: I turn, and there, just behind me, lies a tiny old man in a large casket.

Noun used with modifier

  • silver: A bespectacled young priest, Yousuf, led us barefoot into the unbearable crush of bodies around the saint's silver casket.
  • ash: We have a number of different urns or ashes caskets for you to keep the ashes in at home.
  • crystal: A ring ( which may be borrowed ) is placed into a crystal casket and the top is closed.
  • glass: These Books are contained in the central bronze and glass casket with the Book of Life from the First World War.
  • wine: He escaped from the White Tower by shinning down a rope, which had been smuggled into his cell in a wine casket.
  • lead: The foot end has completely rotted off, revealing the plain lead casket.

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