dead body
Example Sentences
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Then Golding wrote, “Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
"I could not sleep for a week. I felt like I was walking around like a dead body."
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
In "The Gallerist" -- starring Oscar winners Natalie Portman and Da'Vine Joy Randolph, along with Jenna Ortega and Sterling K. Brown -- a desperate curator tries to sell a dead body at Art Basel Miami.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 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
I was seventeen years old when I saw my first dead body.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
