How to Use corpse in a Sentence

corpse

noun
Definition of corpsenext
Synonyms for corpsenext
  • There was constant shelling, and the smell of corpses hung over the area.
    — WIRED, 6 July 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 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
  • He is charged with murder and abuse of corpse in Fowler’s slaying.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 14 July 2023
  • Gather the family around, bust out the egg nog and watch as frozen corpses are thawed out!
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • An ashen corpse drops to the ground, and the dictator moves on with ease, ready to discuss war tactics with his men.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Soldiers were dragging the corpse on a tent cloth next to Molodkin, leaving a trail of blood.
    — Nadia Beard, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
  • No one could touch the corpse until the jurors assembled.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In Vallejo’s poem, a book sprouts from the corpse of a dead soldier of the Spanish Civil War.
    — Daniel Borzutzky Anne Boyer, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Timko says the heart of the legal issue involves the definition of a corpse.
    — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The morning came — there were only corpses from before.
    — Natalia Yermak, New York Times, 5 July 2023
  • This is ominous—Zecchini goes still as a corpse and knifes downward in the dark.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 July 2023
  • How and why Ötzi, perhaps the world’s most studied corpse, got the body art has long been a source of fascination.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The absence of a corpse ended up whetting the public’s appetite for an answer to the mystery.
    — Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
  • Fritsch was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree abuse of a corpse.
    — Fzarkhin, oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Enemies captured alive would be marched down to the river and shot, their corpses left to float downstream.
    — Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Figueroa-Matos, 41, of Fayetteville is charged with capital murder and abuse of corpse.
    — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Amy Spada stepped out her front door in Monrovia on Sunday morning and, to her horror, found a corpse on the lawn.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023

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