corpse

Example Sentences

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Mojtaba Khamanei said in his message he had seen the late ayatollah's corpse after his "martyrdom".

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

“The folkloric Euro-American story of the ‘headless horseman’ comes to mind — a nightmarish, animated corpse who haunts the living.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

Israeli forces had to find and extract his corpse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Doctors need to know how the human body is put together, and there is no substitute for dissecting a corpse and looking inside.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

The hand was cold as a corpse, but I took it anyway.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall