How to Use morgue in a Sentence

morgue

noun

• But Kolia’s name wasn’t on the lists of bodies at the morgue.
  — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
• Karl is visiting the morgue, alone, to claim the body of his wife.
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• The county sent in a freezer truck when the morgue filled.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• Many parts of the country have run out of ICU beds and even morgue space.
  — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• Sergey was at the morgue to pick up the body of his baby brother.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• Hunter Schafer gets asked to do something (in a morgue).
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 29 May 2024
• The workers zipped the bags tight and hoisted them aloft, to be taken to the morgue.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2022
• So, the deputy coroner offered to take Steve's body to the morgue and run some tests.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2021
• And the episode ends with Knight delivering lunch to the morgue.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• Levchenko, 36 years old, found a shortcut at the start of the war when morgues were overwhelmed.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
• In Stepanakert, the trips from the restaurant to the morgue cannot even bring clarity.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
• Weeks passed before her father found Ilya’s name on a list of the dead at the morgue.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2022
• Workers at the morgue used puddles to clean their bloody hands.
  — Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2022
• Hamilton then flashed a photo of Fuller from the morgue up on the courtroom screen.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 16 Nov. 2022
• The 90-year-old was then placed into a body bag and sent to the morgue for preservation.
  — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
• At the morgue in Bucha, black plastic body bags rustled as they were pulled back from the faces of the dead.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC news, 9 May 2022
• For months, his body had lain in the Hinds County morgue, unclaimed.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
• Alla Ryabko stood in the courtyard of the city morgue, trembling with grief and rage.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• The people gathered at this morgue just want answers, even in the form of a corpse.
  — Clarissa Ward, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
• The bodies kept coming to the morgue, but none were leaving.
  — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2021
• The family found their mother’s body in the city morgue the next day.
  — Megan Specia Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• Cam and Lauren are trapped in the basement of a morgue and have to strategize to escape from the dead.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• Maldonado’s name was on the list, his body at the city morgue.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• If the death happens at the hospital, ask if the body can stay in the morgue for a couple of days.
  — Connie Cone Sexton, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
• His body was able to be lifted, placed in a body bag and taken to the local morgue.
  — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
• So many people died that doctors had to step over bodies piled on the floor of the morgue.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• At least 11 bodies were sent straight to the morgue, Fire Chief Li Ching-hsiu told reporters at the scene.
  — Fox News, 14 Oct. 2021
• The hospital could not keep the body — there were already too many in its morgue.
  — Joy Dong, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• According to al-Salmo, the site included a morgue, a field kitchen and a drugstore, indicating its use as a militia hub during the conflict.
  — Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
• Visitors’ eyes widen in horror at the sight of the mutilated and emaciated bodies filling the morgue.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Feb 2025