corpse

Example Sentences

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They seem to be lowering Christ’s corpse, which is thrust forward from the picture plane, onto the altar below the painting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

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 • Mar. 13, 2026

Héctor checked for vitals and then placed a paper blanket over the corpse.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

She recalled, “Harvey was looking for someone at the bureau to play a body,” while preparing to give a slide presentation on best practices for photographing a corpse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

A strange and solemn object was that corpse to me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë