How to Use corpse in a Sentence

corpse

noun
Definition of corpsenext
Synonyms for corpsenext
  • There was constant shelling, and the smell of corpses hung over the area.
    — WIRED, 6 July 2023
  • The younger men ran ahead and shooed Bella from the corpse of a fox.
    — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
  • All at once the man pushed the nurse out of the way, lifted up the corpse with his hands and ran out the door.
    — Hazlitt, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Then in 1986, Miller’s corpse appeared in the same field as Fye’s.
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The corpses, wrapped in blue body bags, were buried Tuesday in a mass grave.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Fitch was more alarmed by the content of the message above the raccoon corpse.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • The sheep eat the corpse, are infected with the virus, and quickly die.
    — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 27 June 2024
  • The scene in which Mary Ellen walks through a maze of corpses only to find one of herself?
    — Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The Kourtney hit up a party dressed as a bride's corpse.
    — Maria Yagoda, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
  • For weeks bloated corpses drifted ashore with the tide.
    — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
  • On the other side is a henchman, the Algorithm, the bomb, and a blue-team corpse.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Soldiers sorted through the corpses strewn around the grounds—many of them burned and blackened.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Sandhill cranes mate for life, and Ross noticed the corpse of one bird lying by the side of the road.
    — Grant Sharples, SPIN, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Cops arrived and opened the door, finding the two rotting corpses.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • He is charged with murder and abuse of corpse in Fowler’s slaying.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 14 July 2023
  • The cops found his corpse wrapped in a garden hose; his crew hastily fled to San Diego.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
  • In the Ukrainian town of Bucha, a corpse could be seen lying in the street, the man’s arms tied behind his back.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Gather the family around, bust out the egg nog and watch as frozen corpses are thawed out!
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The woman was charged with neglect leading to a child’s death and hiding the corpse.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Her body was found in a car, alongside the corpse of her press officer.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • My grandma curses the perpetrators for rape and the corpses in the streets.
    — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The son will be charged with capital murder and the father abuse of a corpse, Moscoso said.
    — Jolie Lash, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The Hunter’s foot steps on the upper leg of the corpse, the prehensile spur digging deep, pinioning the body to the ground.
    — Wyatt Mason, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • Oh, she’s locked in a dungeon, chained to the floor with the rotting corpses of Shapeshifter’s other victims.
    — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 11 July 2024
  • If the corpse of the week illustrates anything, it’s that no one knows when their time on Earth will end.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • When the corpse stirred for the second time, Allan was just coming out of a fog of his last slumber.
    — Hazlitt, 13 Mar. 2024
  • As many as a dozen corpses might be disinterred, Dr. Skóra said.
    — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The abuse of corpse charge states Jones put her remains in a suitcase and dumped the suitcase in a remote area.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 25 Apr. 2022
  • He’s supposed to read as a reanimated corpse; a once-suave and debonaire one, but a corpse all the same.
    — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Dead Outlaw is based on a true story and follows the corpse of outlaw Elmer McCurdy through death.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024

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