How to Use corpse in a Sentence
corpse
noun-
The disease and parasites from the corpse would then infect the live person and slowly kill him.
— Terry Pluto, cleveland, 4 June 2022 -
The types of rocks found in the underground of a graveyard play an important role in the decay of corpses.
— David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 -
It’s not about brand extension in our age of endless I.P. corpse-humping.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2022 -
Matzen is now being charged with hiding a corpse and first-degree reckless homicide in relation to Rogers death.
— Adam Sabes, Fox News, 11 May 2022 -
The presentation started off memorably with images of a tombstone and a porcine corpse with a knife plunged into it.
— Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 24 May 2022 -
Case closed, with what’s left of Sofia’s car and Sal Maroni’s whole corpse lying in the rubble for good measure.
— Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024 -
As a warning, the Americans killed Péralte and distributed an image of his corpse tied to a door, evoking a crucifixion.
— New York Times, 20 May 2022 -
The sight of Till’s mutilated and decomposed corpse at his open-casket funeral galvanized the civil-rights movement.
— Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024 -
The image of the decoration, which appears to shows what Winehouse's decomposing corpse would look like, recently resurfaced on Twitter.
— Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 17 May 2022 -
There was constant shelling, and the smell of corpses hung over the area.
— WIRED, 6 July 2023 -
The younger men ran ahead and shooed Bella from the corpse of a fox.
— Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023 -
All at once the man pushed the nurse out of the way, lifted up the corpse with his hands and ran out the door.
— Hazlitt, 16 Nov. 2023 -
Then in 1986, Miller’s corpse appeared in the same field as Fye’s.
— Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022 -
The corpses, wrapped in blue body bags, were buried Tuesday in a mass grave.
— Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023 -
Fitch was more alarmed by the content of the message above the raccoon corpse.
— Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 8 June 2023 -
The sheep eat the corpse, are infected with the virus, and quickly die.
— Alex Raiman, EW.com, 27 June 2024 -
The scene in which Mary Ellen walks through a maze of corpses only to find one of herself?
— Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023 -
The Kourtney hit up a party dressed as a bride's corpse.
— Maria Yagoda, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022 -
For weeks bloated corpses drifted ashore with the tide.
— Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023 -
On the other side is a henchman, the Algorithm, the bomb, and a blue-team corpse.
— Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024 -
Soldiers sorted through the corpses strewn around the grounds—many of them burned and blackened.
— David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023 -
Sandhill cranes mate for life, and Ross noticed the corpse of one bird lying by the side of the road.
— Grant Sharples, SPIN, 13 Oct. 2022 -
Cops arrived and opened the door, finding the two rotting corpses.
— Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024 -
He is charged with murder and abuse of corpse in Fowler’s slaying.
— Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 14 July 2023 -
The cops found his corpse wrapped in a garden hose; his crew hastily fled to San Diego.
— Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023 -
Gather the family around, bust out the egg nog and watch as frozen corpses are thawed out!
— Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024 -
The woman was charged with neglect leading to a child’s death and hiding the corpse.
— Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024 -
Her body was found in a car, alongside the corpse of her press officer.
— Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024 -
My grandma curses the perpetrators for rape and the corpses in the streets.
— Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023 -
The son will be charged with capital murder and the father abuse of a corpse, Moscoso said.
— Jolie Lash, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2024
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