casket
noun
a coffin.
caskets
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pluralof casket.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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State media showed five simple caskets wrapped in Iranian flags inside the mosque, including a small one containing the body of Khamenei’s 1-year-old granddaughter who Iran said was killed in the airstrike alongside him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Hughes himself lay in one of the caskets to experience it.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
When Old Glory was planted on the moon in 1969, it had already draped the caskets of tens of thousands of soldiers who died in Vietnam.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026
Indian authorities said an inscription on one of the caskets unearthed with the treasure confirmed the contents -- which include bone fragments -- as "relics of the Buddha".
From Barron's ● Jan. 3, 2026
The caskets were almost completely loaded into the tail end of the C-47.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
