dead body
Example Sentences
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Her interest in art contrasts with the darker themes of The Gallerist, in which she plays an art consultant caught up in a scheme to sell a dead body as an artwork.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
Certain hardline sections of the ultra-Orthodox community disagree with autopsies, saying any interference with a dead body is a desecration according to the Torah.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
Having fashioned a creature from dead body parts, the scientist recoils from the result, which appears to him to be a monster of “unparalleled barbarity,” and abandons his construction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
“Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living,” Gai said.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
I was seventeen years old when I saw my first dead body.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
