corpse

Example Sentences

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Mojtaba Khamanei said in his message he had seen the late ayatollah's corpse after his "martyrdom".

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Héctor checked for vitals and then placed a paper blanket over the corpse.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

She recalled, “Harvey was looking for someone at the bureau to play a body,” while preparing to give a slide presentation on best practices for photographing a corpse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

David carefully composed an idealized corpse to make Marat resemble images of the dead Christ.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

Then there was the business of death, the complexity of how to deposit a badly burned corpse into the ground of a National Cemetery as quickly and with as much dignity as possible.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy