How to Use body cavity in a Sentence
body cavity
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No air from the body cavity was coming out of any of the cuts.
—Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
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She was ordered to take all her clothes off for a body cavity search.
—Li Yuan, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
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His blue rubber gloves, slick with blood, are stark against the open body cavity.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2019
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First, the momma fly injects her eggs into the body cavity of the ant host.
—Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2015
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Always prop the body cavity open with a spreader stick so air flows inside; do this too when game is hung from trees.
—Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
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Black blow flies, Stafford testified, only lay eggs in body cavities or wounds.
—David Owens, courant.com, 10 Jan. 2018
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Parietal fascia covers the area around your pelvis and other body cavities.
—Scott Haak, EverydayHealth.com, 6 May 2026
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In this case, the driver contends that he was subjected to a strip search and visual body cavity search.
—Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
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Plugging his hand into his body cavity didn’t turn out to be necessary after all.
—New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
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The sheriff says a female inmate later helped remove it from a body cavity.
—Fox News, 13 June 2018
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Even the best pat-down can't find contraband that has been swallowed in a balloon or stuffed into a body cavity.
—Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2017
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Generally, the machines can't find items stashed in a body cavity.
—Brett Israel, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2010
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Be warned, the film is not for the faint of heart with its oozing body cavities, slithering viscera, and firehose blasts of blood.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
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Loosely stuff body cavity and close with turkey lacers or metal skewers.
—Woman's Day, 1 Jan. 2012
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The tenderloins were then removed from the inside of the body cavity, then the first cuts were made into the hind quarters.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2020
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On a show that has seen bombs in body cavities, plane crashes, ferry boat crashes and more, anything is possible.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2019
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The researchers could now see that the objects were moving inside the starfish's coelom, the body cavity that extends into its arms.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2015
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When females lay eggs in an open wound or in a moist body cavity — the nose, ears, eyes or mouth — the larvae burrow into living tissue.
—Ciara McCarthy. Produced With Ai Assistance, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 June 2026
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For big game, begin by extracting the inner loins located on the inside of the body cavity.
—The Editors, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2020
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Anglers will likely see small yellow spots on or inside the fish, typically in the body cavity, head, throat, and gills.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 27 May 2020
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The chuckwalla then puffs their body cavity out like a balloon, lodges its rough scales into the cave's walls and becomes unreachable.
—Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2024
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Before a second officer could perform what the suit described as a body cavity search, Howard fled.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 13 July 2021
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One of the problems that can occur during field dressing is having deer feces come into contact with the body cavity and the meat.
—The Editors, Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2019
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Research has shown that worms stay in the body cavity as long as temperatures stay under 62 degrees.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 27 May 2020
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These and the backstraps, which are located along the backbone outside of the body cavity are considered to be the best portions of meat.
—The Editors, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2020
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But the jail has since started using body scanners and privacy curtains to conduct body cavity searches.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2019
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During intake, arrestees are verbally warned that smuggling drugs into jail through a body cavity can be deadly.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2022
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After 25–30 days, the larvae become large cysts within the shrimp's body cavity.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2023
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After completely thawing the turkey, remove the giblets and the neck from the body cavity (usually in a sack inside the bird).
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
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From a pragmatic standpoint, its most notable feature is its lack of the traditional f-hole opening in the body cavity.
—Todd Longwell, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
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