Example Sentences

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Richard’s bones were found buried, coffinless, beneath a parking lot.

From Newsweek • Mar. 22, 2015

Near Thebes, a cemetery yielded examples of burying from a prehistoric coffinless method to early mummification.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet, surely, I reflected, something resembling interment must have taken place on the arrival of each corpse, especially as it was coffinless.

From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John

Of coffin shape they were,         For those who, coffinless, must enter there         With unblest rites.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Lamb, Mary

At moments the fitful rays fall upon bearers carrying a coffinless body rolled in a blanket, with a military cloak roughly thrown over by way of pall.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas