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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Crucially, it held on to its stockpile of nearly 1,000 pounds of near weapons-grade uranium—half of it buried in caskets in a tunnel deep under its Isfahan nuclear site, according to the U.N. atomic agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 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
They did not tell one another the other stories, of those still missing, of families burying empty caskets.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
