body bag

noun

: a large zippered bag (as of rubber or vinyl) in which a human corpse is placed especially for transportation

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In May, protesters held late-night demonstrations outside the private homes of several university regents, placing fake bloody body bags on their lawns and tacking a list of demands to their front doors, according to a statement from university president Santa J. Ono. —

Jake Tapper, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024 One rescue worker took a tiny body bag and leaned into the pickup truck for the infant’s body. —

Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024 Five minutes in a full body bag can lower core body temperature by as much as 1 degree Fahrenheit. —

Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2024 Amid the growing casualties, the Kremlin has distributed a manual to soldiers on how to dig and maintain mass graves, filled with diagrams showing mass graves with body bags piled on top of one another, The Daily Telegraph reported. —

Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for body bag