How to Use corpse in a Sentence

corpse

noun

• Because their corpses were so heavy, they were sometimes left to decompose until they could be pulled apart and removed piecemeal.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
• Two brothers find a mutilated corpse near their property and convene with the locals to suss it out.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
• Nevertheless, the girls are lined up with plastic corpses onstage and assigned to die according to their skill level.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
• As Yellow drifts through the houses, the worst has already been done, and corpses’ heads have been covered in white sheets — a case where restraint undercuts the shock value.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2024
• The ex-boyfriend of a woman who was found dead in a shallow grave inside an Alabama barn earlier this year was indicted on one count of abuse of a corpse on Tuesday.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 7 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• The Hunter’s foot steps on the upper leg of the corpse, the prehensile spur digging deep, pinioning the body to the ground.
  — Wyatt Mason, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
• Oh, she’s locked in a dungeon, chained to the floor with the rotting corpses of Shapeshifter’s other victims.
  — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 11 July 2024
• When the corpse stirred for the second time, Allan was just coming out of a fog of his last slumber.
  — Hazlitt, 13 Mar. 2024
• As many as a dozen corpses might be disinterred, Dr. Skóra said.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• Wrapped in a hazmat suit, she's led to the corpse of a middle-aged woman with a gnarly bite on her left leg.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
• The needles are believed to be from the 13th century, and may have been part of a corpse's clothing.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024
• And the fungus bursts out of the head of the corpse and sprays spores that rain down on unsuspecting ants below.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
• Soon after, photographs of bin Laden’s corpse were passed around the room.
  — Nate Jones, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024