How to Use cadaver in a Sentence

cadaver

noun
  • Santry said the police would send cadaver dogs, and if the dogs seemed to detect something, the police would dig up the rug, but would otherwise leave it.
    Conor Murray, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • After the discovery of the body parts last week, the river was searched using sonar, divers, cadaver dogs, a drone and officers scouring the shoreline, police said.
    Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2024
  • And more: the doll’s chest can be opened up, like that of a cadaver.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • The rescuers brought in cadaver dogs to scour the riverbanks.
    azcentral, 15 May 2018
  • Earlier that day, the grounds had been cleared of the last cadavers, but the stench of death lingered.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The dead leg keeps up for a while, that is, until the ligaments and bones of the cadaver can no longer turn.
    Brian_mossop, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2010
  • Some of the summer classes even work with cadavers brought in sealed and kept moist in a body bag.
    Krista Torralva, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2018
  • Police responded to the area with cadaver dogs and found the rest of the body Tuesday.
    Fox News, 7 June 2018
  • Up to 10% of the cadavers that arrive are never claimed.
    David Luhnow, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
  • Amid the ruins, cadaver dogs still search for the missing.
    Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Still, when the room was searched again on June 29, a team of cadaver dogs signaled the smell of human decay.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The well also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 6 May 2024
  • Also, the team deals with the case of a missing cadaver from the NCIS autopsy room.
    Chuck Barney, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2020
  • One of them was found overnight Friday during a search of the mobile home park with a cadaver dog.
    New York Times, 21 May 2022
  • On Tuesday, state police used cadaver dogs to search the woods near Miya's home for the missing girl.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 14 June 2024
  • Durst had once said the cadaver note could only have been written by her killer.
    Brian Melley, ajc, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Two cadaver dogs were brought in to ensure no victims were trapped in the rubble.
    Tara Law, Time, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The cadaver lab, an event for Death Science, sold tickets, priced up to $500, to the public to view the autopsy.
    Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, there are few state laws prohibiting the trade in whole cadavers or in non-transplant parts.
    Author: Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Oct. 2017
  • And Nuno and Murch also knew that cadaver dogs had roamed the property back in 2005 and had found nothing.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The cadavers had been hacked into headless torsos and piles of limbs.
    Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • That day, three cadaver dogs reacted to something in the same area.
    Emily Wichick Hourihane and Judy Rybak, CBS News, 10 May 2024
  • Burrows and her colleagues examined the eye muscles in the cadavers of six dogs and two wolves.
    Jeremy Rehm, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
  • Cadavers lay unburied in a cemetery while those in the town focused on search and rescue.
    Susan Abad and Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2017
  • And so in many cases what happens is, first, cadaver sniffing dogs are used to search the area to see if there's any trace of humans.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Now other groups around the world are training cadaver dogs.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2023
  • In September, at least 174 cadavers were found in another clutch of graves in the same state.
    Juan Montes, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
  • The next day deputies returned to the park where Andressian was found to conduct a large-scale search with cadaver dogs, horses and a drone.
    Nicole Santa Cruz, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • The first legal dissection in Arkansas came in 1874, and the cadaver was once again a Black man.
    Tom Dillard, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Over the years, the Allen Institute has used mice and the brains of cadavers to create atlases of where various genes are expressed in the brain.
    Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018

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