Solemn occasions

Usage examples of funerals.

I know how much public money is wasted on fribbles like funerals and feasts!

In designing a funeral for himself that would surpass all the funerals of the past in its ludicrous self-indulgence and mawkish extravagance, he must also have had it in mind that there would soon come a time when funerals would lose their aura of inevitability, occurring only in the wake of rare and unexpected accidents.

Most of the mourners were old widows for whom funerals were a form of entertainment.

The funeral did what funerals are supposed to do: it gave us no time to dwell on our feelings.

We all carry a spare yarmulka or two in our fobs at funerals, so as Gentiles can wear them.