as in to inter
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
the cemetery hearses an average of eight bodies a week
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Recent Examples of hearse
The cars, shown Nov. 8 and 9, appeared in classes such as classics, customs, dragsters, race cars, rat rods, street rods, trucks, uniques and even hearses.
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Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
There was Ozzy’s hearse up front and the family in about five black SUVs following us.
—Steve Knopper, Billboard, 30 July 2025
Police vans and hearses were among the only available vehicles large enough to transport someone lying down.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
Decorated hearses ferry visitors past the Mercer Williams House Museum, where an antiques dealer shot his lover and inspired the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
—John Von Sothen, airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
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Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
There was Ozzy’s hearse up front and the family in about five black SUVs following us.
—Steve Knopper, Billboard, 30 July 2025
Police vans and hearses were among the only available vehicles large enough to transport someone lying down.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
Decorated hearses ferry visitors past the Mercer Williams House Museum, where an antiques dealer shot his lover and inspired the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
—John Von Sothen, airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hearse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hearse
Verb
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Other dives have been conducted to inter the remains of Arizona survivors who wanted to rest eternally with their former shipmates.—
Jim Mustian,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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Bianchi had been interred anonymously in a military cemetery in Hawaii.—
Forum News Service,
Twin Cities,
1 May 2026
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The text card at the close of the episode notes that between 1980 and 1988, more than 200,000 Iranians were killed during the war, while over 15,000 Iranian political prisoners were executed and buried in mass graves.—
Alissa Simon,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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Actor Billy Gardell, a Pittsburgh native, walks a new security guard through it all with the schedule buried at the end.—
Teresa M. Walker,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2026
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The bed resists public-facing things, hence its charge as a womb to tomb motif.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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Highlights include the Pyramid of Djoser or Step Pyramid—the world’s oldest pyramid—and the Mastaba of Ti tomb.—
Nada El Sawy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Nov. 2023
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“Hearse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hearse. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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