How to Use corpse in a Sentence

corpse

noun

• The Kourtney hit up a party dressed as a bride's corpse.
  — Maria Yagoda, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
• 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
• His corpse was pushed through a hole chopped in the ice covering a Siberian river.
  — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2022
• How horrific, to be remembered only for one’s darkest moments, not a pinprick of hope cast over your corpse.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 29 Sep. 2022
• In 2021, Jenner gave fans a glimpse of her spooky corpse bride look for the haunted holiday.
  — Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
• That’s except for King Viserys, whose nasty battle with a form of leprosy has reduced him to all but a breathing corpse.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 Oct. 2022
• The corpse was far too decomposed for the medical examiner to determine an exact cause of death.
  — Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
• Papers purportedly found on Dahlgren’s corpse detailed his mission.
  — Longreads, 3 Oct. 2024
• Plea negotiations led to two other counts – hiding a corpse and armed robbery – being dismissed but they were read in, per online court records.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
• The book is a despairing account of a boy and his father lurching across the cold, wretched, corpse-strewn, ashen landscape of a post-apocalyptic world.
  — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• The series opens on Caty who is about to shoot the fourth season of her Kardashian-like reality show and wakes up beside a corpse in her bed.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
• The festivities take a dark turn when a corpse surfaces on the beach, transforming the lavish affair into a hotbed of suspicion.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024