How to Use funeral director in a Sentence

funeral director

noun

• The funeral director held the door for them on their way out.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 10 June 2020
• The health department dropped off a swab for the funeral director, who swabbed the body.
  — Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2020
• The other is a funeral director who is a good man but who doesn’t set her ablaze.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• The film tells the tale of an ex-con funeral director who has a chance meeting with an orphaned girl.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 26 June 2022
• As the service drew to a close, Gorham approached the funeral director.
  — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• Then Greenebaum, a funeral director in a nearby city, reached out to the rabbi.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 8 July 2022
• To see the white gloves the funeral director wanted to use to cover her bruised, cut hands, and the pink carnations in her nest of dark hair.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2015
• The third white box, sealed tightly shut, contained the rest of the baby’s remains, the funeral director told her.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 10 June 2020
• The funeral director led me into the empty chapel: the coffin was on a bier near a door, where, on the other side, the hearse was parked and waiting.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• At one point, the funeral director even kept the lights off in the chapel to discourage people from coming in.
  — cincinnati.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• But by then, the funeral director had died and did not record what happened to the remains or tell anyone else.
  — Rennie Svirnovskiy, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• The funeral director, José Manuel Rodríguez, wore jeans because the wind busted the windows and the rain drenched all his suits.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 30 Sep. 2017
• Gustin, the funeral director, says it’s never her role to judge.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2021
• Aimee Stephens, a transgender funeral director, died a month before the high court ruled in the case.
  — John Fritze, USA Today, 1 June 2021
• Wearing a black suit, a white tie, and white gloves, Burson, 6, worked alongside the funeral director and rode in the passenger side of the hearse.
  — Nicole S. Daniel | The Birmingham Times, al, 11 Feb. 2023
• Since 1974, he’s been a funeral director in the town of Milford, Michigan.
  — Thomas Lynch, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2022
• The funeral director will embalm the deceased and then the Amish family will take the body into their care.
  — Caleb Wilde, The Cut, 29 Sep. 2017
• Her grandmother, Shirley Drew Jones, was the first woman to be a licensed funeral director in the state.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
• No one knows better than a funeral director that life is short.
  — CBS News, 14 June 2019
• The funeral home had a dress code that required male funeral directors to wear pant suits and women to wear skirt suits.
  — Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 14 June 2019
• Aunt Glo and the funeral director (Williams), now Gil’s lover (yes, that happened), follow in hot pursuit.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
• Only later was there a meeting in which the funeral director told the family that there had been a mix-up, the complaint states.
  — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 28 July 2022
• The latest surge in deaths has overwhelmed even a funeral director who has spent four decades laying people to rest.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2020
• After making all the arrangements, the funeral director made a call to St. Elizabeth to pick up the body.
  — Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• Next the funeral director makes a small incision near the clavicle, to access the jugular vein and carotid artery.
  — Mark Evely, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2020
• Timothy Mott noticed Wilburn hanging around and told the funeral director to watch him, Salazar told the jury.
  — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Jan. 2018
• Before the two stainless steel caskets were closed for eternity the funeral director had a final mission, the last thing to do for the strangers who had become part of her life.
  — oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2019
• Even so, Torres never set out to be a funeral director.
  — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• Another one passed this year requires funeral directors, embalmers, and cremationists to be licensed by the state.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
• Farmer noted that funeral directors perform some 2.4 million funerals each year — and the vast majority of them never result in headlines.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024