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

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

On Lusitania's rock—girt coast, All coffinless thy relics lie, Where all but honour bright was lost, Yet thy example shall not die.

From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael

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