human remains

plural noun

: parts of the bodies of dead people

an area where ancient human remains have been found

Examples of human remains in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In a news release, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said that deputies were called to a home in the 19000 block of Crest Drive in Apple Valley for a report of human remains found. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 28 June 2026

On Thursday, Kansas City Fire Department officials said that a cadaver dog had alerted them the night of the fire to possible human remains in the flooded basement of the house in the 700 block of Brookside Avenue but that a search had turned up nothing. — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026

Most problematic is the storage of human remains, as the Indigenous Australian architect Carroll Go-Sam addresses in her essay. — Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 26 June 2026

The previous week, the group uncovered 11 bags of human remains in Santa Anita, some 10km west. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026

Rhymes for human remains

• abstains
• alkanes
• attains
• biplanes
• bloodstains
• campaigns
• complains
• constrains
• contains
• demesnes
• detains
• disdains