corpse
Example Sentences
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Doctors need to know how the human body is put together, and there is no substitute for dissecting a corpse and looking inside.
David carefully composed an idealized corpse to make Marat resemble images of the dead Christ.
Based on the manga by Mokumokuren, the fantasy horror series probes what happens when a rural teen named Hikaru is fatally injured . . . but then returns when an otherworldly being possesses his corpse and memories.
From Salon
Exquisite corpse was also used in character design.
From Los Angeles Times
By contrast, the German Reich was unfortunate in its ally Austria-Hungary during World War I; one observer likened it to “being chained to a rotting corpse.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
