body bag
noun
: a large zippered bag (as of rubber or vinyl) in which a human corpse is placed especially for transportation
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His body was able to be lifted, placed in a body bag and taken to the local morgue.
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Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
Wrapped in a blanketed body bag, Miranda was laid on a bench in the aircraft, then buckled in.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
Doty tells a story that incorporates much of the classical matter of UFO mythology: the crash at Roswell, an oval craft, body bags with alien corpses.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
All but two of a dozen body bags lay on the floor at the rear entrance one recent morning because there weren’t enough gurneys.
—James Marson, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
With that death toll heavy on their minds Saturday morning, Mahmoud Ashi and a group of friends boarded a bus in New Jersey carrying 75 small handmade body bags.
—Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
The mortician told Brock that Moran’s wallet — including his driver’s license with his mother’s address, Social Security card and a photo of his daughter — was inside the body bag.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
The latter image is stunning, and there is an argument to be made that the body bags are enough to convey the horror and to fully portray the destruction of these mass shootings.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
The body bags were labeled with numbers, not names.
—Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
Wrapped in a blanketed body bag, Miranda was laid on a bench in the aircraft, then buckled in.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
Doty tells a story that incorporates much of the classical matter of UFO mythology: the crash at Roswell, an oval craft, body bags with alien corpses.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
All but two of a dozen body bags lay on the floor at the rear entrance one recent morning because there weren’t enough gurneys.
—James Marson, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
With that death toll heavy on their minds Saturday morning, Mahmoud Ashi and a group of friends boarded a bus in New Jersey carrying 75 small handmade body bags.
—Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
The mortician told Brock that Moran’s wallet — including his driver’s license with his mother’s address, Social Security card and a photo of his daughter — was inside the body bag.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
The latter image is stunning, and there is an argument to be made that the body bags are enough to convey the horror and to fully portray the destruction of these mass shootings.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
The body bags were labeled with numbers, not names.
—Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
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“Body bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20bag. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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