corpse
Example Sentences
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Doctors lacked advanced medical tools, so a corpse was watched for three days to be certain it did not awaken.
From Literature
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Héctor checked for vitals and then placed a paper blanket over the corpse.
From BBC
And there’s this one, a pioneering one in California criminal law: a crime even without a corpse, the body of evidence — the corpus delicti.
From Los Angeles Times
These exercises, including games of exquisite corpse, released something fantastical in Lam.
Nietzsche said God is dead, but skimped on details of how we’d deal with the corpse.
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