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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• McWhirter was her editor at the time and told Thomas to go to the morgue and find out why the girl was downtown in the first place.
  — Layla McMurtrie, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2022
• The police report states that checks were made with a friend, a list of hospitals and the morgue.
  — Gina Barton, USA Today, 2 Mar. 2023
• On-site is a small farm, laundry house, bakery and morgue.
  — Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
• During the worst days of the siege, Andreev had lived in the basement at the morgue, bringing his wife with him.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022
• But the next day it’s discovered that while the dead cadet’s body lay in the morgue, his heart was cut out and taken.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
• The implosion accelerates as a confused Agnes storms into the morgue to confront the body.
  — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
• The medical team wheels the body out of the cabin under a curtain on a room service trolley so as not to disturb the passengers, then uses the flower shop walk-in freezer as a morgue.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024