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How to pronounce hearse in English?

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Type of automotive vehicle, motor vehicle

Examples of hearse

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Several sailors stood at attention and lined the runway as the hearse passed by.
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Funeral Director Tom Somma used his hearse to deliver bottled water to shut-ins.
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A hearse arrives at the prison in Terre Haute shortly after McVeigh's execution.
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Finally, the team of people working on the hearse have something to show for it.
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A guitar player parades by with wailing women, then a hearse filled with flowers.
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If they had sent a limo to pick him up at the draft, it would have been a hearse.
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Certainly avoid inter-city vans like the plague, and motorcycles like a hearse.
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I will see her hearse as it leaves the scene of her greatest political battles.
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The white hearse led by eight motorcycle officers moved slowly toward Meridian.
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More examples
  • A vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle
  • A hearse is a funeral vehicle, a conveyance for the coffin from e.g. a church to a cemetery, a similar burial site, or a crematorium. In the funeral trade, they are often called funeral coaches.
  • Hearse is a Swedish Melodic death metal band, founded by vocalist Johan Liiva (ex-Arch Enemy) and drummer Max Thornell in 2001. The band have released four albums to date.
  • The Hearse is a 1980 B-Movie starring Trish Van Devere and Joseph Cotten.
  • A hind in the year of its age; A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies; A grave, coffin, tomb, or ...
  • To dream of a hearse, denotes uncongenial relations in the home, and failure to carry on business in a satisfactory manner. It also betokens the death of one near to you, or sickness and sorrow. If a hearse crosses your path, you will have a bitter enemy to overcome.
  • A vehicle for the transportation of corpses from funeral to burial.
  • Motor vehicle destined exclusively to the transport of coffins; this vehicle has the following copulative characteristics:
  • A station wagon type vehicle equipped for transporting a coffin or remains of a deceased person.