How to Use morgue in a Sentence
morgue
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The bones were put in a small body bag and taken to the morgue.
—Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 6 Sep. 2019
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Gamely, Barnard had agreed to join Lefrak in the morgue.
—oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
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His body was found in the woods and identified in the morgue.
—Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 27 Feb. 2020
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Four men loaded the bodies and drove them to the morgue.
—James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
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Rests on a dead body while hiding from the bad guys at the morgue.
—Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 24 May 2017
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But Kolia’s name wasn’t on the lists of bodies at the morgue.
—Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
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Karl is visiting the morgue, alone, to claim the body of his wife.
—Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
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The county sent in a freezer truck when the morgue filled.
—Washington Post, 24 May 2021
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In the midst of this, the Coroner calls to says that a dead man was brought into the morgue.
—refinery29.com, 3 May 2018
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Many parts of the country have run out of ICU beds and even morgue space.
—Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 25 Nov. 2020
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Sergey was at the morgue to pick up the body of his baby brother.
—Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
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Hunter Schafer gets asked to do something (in a morgue).
—Zoe Guy, Vulture, 29 May 2024
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One showed Ace smiling; the other showed him in the morgue.
—The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2019
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The workers zipped the bags tight and hoisted them aloft, to be taken to the morgue.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2022
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Overall, the weekend felt a bit like one long field trip to the morgue.
—Matthew Scogin, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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So, the deputy coroner offered to take Steve's body to the morgue and run some tests.
—Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2021
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And the episode ends with Knight delivering lunch to the morgue.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2022
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His friend Hasan is dragged to the morgue to identify him, and faints.
—Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
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Levchenko, 36 years old, found a shortcut at the start of the war when morgues were overwhelmed.
—James Marson, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
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And those people sitting in the morgue, with no one to claim them?
—Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2018
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In Stepanakert, the trips from the restaurant to the morgue cannot even bring clarity.
—Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
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The other was transported in a body bag to the city morgue.
—Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 28 June 2019
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Weeks passed before her father found Ilya’s name on a list of the dead at the morgue.
—Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2022
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Workers at the morgue used puddles to clean their bloody hands.
—Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2022
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Joseph Kalom, a pharmacist, and his wife drove across the state from their home in Portage to the morgue.
—Freep.com, 10 Nov. 2019
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Similar videos have emerged from morgues in other cities.
—Hamid Kashani, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2026
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And again the morgues and graveyards of Iran received fathers and sons, mothers and daughters.
—Azar Nafisi, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
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In Kahrizak, south of Tehran, videos showed large crowds gathering around dozens of body bags on the pavement near a morgue.
—Sarah Dean, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
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Videos from the site, which became a makeshift morgue, first circulated over the weekend.
—Marin Scott, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
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Rather than hiding its crimes, the regime has broadcast footage from a morgue on state television.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
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