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corpse

[kawrps] / kɔrps /


Example Sentences

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No images have been released in public of his corpse and a state funeral that was supposed to have been held earlier this month has been postponed indefinitely.

From Barron's

Doctors lacked advanced medical tools, so a corpse was watched for three days to be certain it did not awaken.

From Literature

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.

From The Wall Street Journal