dead body
Example Sentences
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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
Written by Imogen Edwards-Jones with James Patterson, it starts like many thrillers: Marilyn Monroe’s housekeeper finds her dead body and calls her doctors.
From Los Angeles Times • 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
When they escape one day, he takes chase and finds a dead body, forcing him to confront his own grief, in Man's Best Friend at Tron, Glasgow, 19 June-12 July.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025
She spoke in an oddly strangled voice, as if she’d just seen a dead body.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
