How to Use corpse in a Sentence

corpse

noun

• 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 discovery on the beach of the nude corpse of one of Jazz’s friends heightens Matt’s alarm.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• 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
• The corpse was dressed in a dark, heavy cloak and bonnet, its legs were bent with knees not far from the ground.
  — Melissa Gray, NPR, 26 Jan. 2025
• The car took the turnoff for Duck River, where many a Black corpse had been hidden.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2021
• 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
• Mercy’s corpse, which was kept in an above-ground tomb, was fresh.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• And why, considering how scorched the corpse was, was the rest of the room barely burned?
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2022
• 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
• For the next 65 years, McCurdy’s corpse bounced around in the freak show Netherworld.
  — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
• In some cases, the saga begins with the discovery of a corpse.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Cosmic vampire blows its top White dwarfs are the stellar corpses that are created when stars with around the same mass of the sun run out of hydrogen in their cores.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025
• The corpses started appearing in the early 2000s, hanging from overpasses with threats scrawled on their shirts.
  — Antón Barba-Kay, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2025