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

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 • Feb. 21, 2026

Nietzsche said God is dead, but skimped on details of how we’d deal with the corpse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

David carefully composed an idealized corpse to make Marat resemble images of the dead Christ.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

She was suddenly struck with the fear that Lena hadn’t ever meant for her to pick up the ring or the bones, and that she’d just desecrated a corpse for no reason.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack