Example Sentences

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When it flowed regularly, sturdy reeds grew on its banks which the Yaqui used to build everything from houses to funeral biers.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2022

Funeral biers would come, and if there was a shortage of funeral biers, some other flat table or something or other would be used to place the corpses on.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

The earth, it seems, has been randomly sampled and laid out on beds and biers and strange pedestals in a state of uncanny suspended animation.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2018

The biers look like hospital stretchers, only sturdier and missing the mattresses.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2012

Sutues of saints, and of crusaders on their biers, or those pretending to be crusaders; effigies of all kinds.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood