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body bag

noun

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as in coffin

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Recent Examples of body bag Images of a pickup truck bed stacked with full body bags haunt one nurse. — Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026 These items included an inflatable pool, two chainsaws, and a body bag. — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 May 2026 The Rimowa collection also features a cross-body bag in orange made in Italy from calf leather, a shopping bag, a trifold toiletry pouch and packing cubes. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026 New graves for bags of bones At the end of the search, family members and rescue workers recite prayers, standing behind 50 white body bags laid out in the dirt. — Anas Baba, NPR, 6 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for body bag

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Noun

The excavation, carried out by an Egyptian archaeological mission under the supervision of the SCA, also uncovered pottery coffins, as well as a collection of incense burners, oil lamps, and funerary amulets.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 31 July 2026
Investigators found his ashes in a brown paper bag on the floor of the funeral director’s premises more than a year after Bush handed her a little blue coffin and told her Sunny’s ashes were inside.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026

Definition of coffin

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This month, the hospital granted rare access to reporters from the Associated Press, allowing them into rooms that lie on either side of the centerpiece of Les Invalides, a soaring mausoleum that holds Napoleon’s sarcophagus.

— Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
This month, the hospital granted rare access to reporters from The Associated Press, allowing them into rooms that lie on either side of the centerpiece of Les Invalides, a soaring mausoleum that holds Napoleon's sarcophagus.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 May 2026

Definition of sarcophagus

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At the end of the ceremony, mourners approached Yarovenko’s casket one by one, laying white flowers beside her.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
What Florida State pulled off in the month of July on the recruiting trail is the college football equivalent of that gif of The Undertaker sitting up in his casket.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of casket

Noun

This tomb, and others in Sardinia, was built as a collective burial site around 1800 BCE by the Nuragic people.

— Leigh Anne Miller for ARTnews, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2026
The same year that the Lincoln Memorial was inaugurated, the tomb of Tutankhamum was discovered in Egypt, fueling a broader fascination with ancient civilizations, monuments and the ways societies preserved memories of powerful figures.

— Jennifer Tucker, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of tomb

Noun

Individual apparatus leads include Patrick Hoopes on pommel horse, Asher Cohen on still rings, Yul Moldauer on parallel bars, Cooper Kim on high bar, and Kameron Nelson on vault, setting up an exciting final day.

— Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
The organization, which is responsible for cleaning up the messes after superhero battles, has something that Jean wants locked inside a vault.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 31 July 2026

Definition of vault

Noun

The coffin was unveiled late on Thursday to a throng of sobbing supporters, who were swaying and beating their heads in time to a sung lament as flowers were thrown from the bier into the crowd.

— Reuters, USA Today, 4 July 2026
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the bier of Kim Yong Nam on Tuesday to express condolences, and the funeral is scheduled for Thursday.

— Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025

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