How to Use corpse in a Sentence
corpse
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The book is strewn with bloody corpses.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
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He has been charged with abuse of a corpse.
—S.e. Jenkins, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
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When the mouths of wolves fall open, a script of corpses march.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
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This year, no one seemed to know what to do with the corpses.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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One concern of mine was corpses.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
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Sneaky bent down to reassess the corpse.
—Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
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Eight corpses were on the floor of kitchen dry storage.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
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Five roach corpses were in a storage area next to the kitchen.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026
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Qing Yuan started to clean the corpse.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
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So bloody was the fighting that many corpses were left on the streets.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
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There was constant shelling, and the smell of corpses hung over the area.
—WIRED, 6 July 2023
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Mercy’s corpse, which was kept in an above-ground tomb, was fresh.
—BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
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And now one of those corpses could soon be Evelyn’s.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2025
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Sweat dripping from her forehead to the corpse.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
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The judge handed down 40 years in prison for corpse abuse.
—Maria Braganini, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
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The younger men ran ahead and shooed Bella from the corpse of a fox.
—Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
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One live roach and 10 roach corpses were spread around the restaurant.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
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At the same time, a decaying corpse turns up in a camper parked in a garage.
—Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
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The corpses, wrapped in blue body bags, were buried Tuesday in a mass grave.
—Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
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Someone had to have dug the pit, stacked the corpses, bulldozed over the mass graves.
—Seema Jilani august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
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He is charged with murder and abuse of corpse in Fowler’s slaying.
—Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 14 July 2023
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Her body was found in a car, alongside the corpse of her press officer.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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The street in front of her building was littered with rubble and corpses.
—James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
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They’ve been reduced to a pile of corpses, even young Constance.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
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Nevertheless, the two trek on to the beach, corpse in tow.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
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Turtle corpses stopped washing ashore.
—Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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Fitch was more alarmed by the content of the message above the raccoon corpse.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
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Those stellar corpses merge and feed on gas and dust, growing larger.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
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About 15 roach corpses were found behind a reach-in cooler.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2026
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So far, all she has been charged with is concealment of a human corpse.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
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