body bag

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Recent Examples of body bag If no body bag is available, cover the corpse with a blanket. Jenny Gross, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025 While searching him, police found a cross-body bag containing the Lyft driver’s blue handgun. Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025 The man, whose face is not seen, is seemingly pushing a white body bag into the car. Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024 The 1950 film, directed by Billy Wilder, opens with Joe’s body floating in Norma’s pool; this version sees Joe crawling out of a body bag. Daniel D'addario, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for body bag
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Noun
  • The goalie change did not help much, as Panthers center Aleksander Barkov tipped in an Aaron Ekblad shot on a power play, putting the last nail in Carolina’s Game 2 coffin.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2025
  • The twins died a month before their 20th birthdays The brothers were laid to rest on March 28, in matching coffins at a cemetery in suburban Atlanta.
    Javon Huynh, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • In an apse, near the site of the sarcophagus, is a sparkling mosaic of Jesus in reddish and gold robes sitting atop the orb of the world.
    Elizabeth Dias, New York Times, 8 May 2025
  • The basilica was built over a white marble sarcophagus that, for some 2,000 years, has been believed to be the tomb of St. Paul. Charles' visit will happen during the Papal Jubilee, a year of forgiveness and reconciliation that is celebrated by the Catholic Church every 25 years.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • What struck me wasn’t her quiet courage—but the revelation that only men are permitted in the outer circle surrounding the Pope’s casket.
    Angela S. Mattie, Hartford Courant, 6 May 2025
  • His office was filled with the artifacts that people left behind in their cars: a high school diploma, a Little League uniform, an American flag that had been draped over a casket at a military funeral.
    Eli Saslow, New York Times, 4 May 2025
Noun
  • While lying in state, the coffin was placed not on an elevated bier, but facing the pews.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 25 Apr. 2025
  • In the past, the pope's body would be displayed on an elevated frame known as a bier.
    Alec Schemmel, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Earlier Sunday, Leo celebrated a private Mass near the tomb of St. Peter.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 11 May 2025
  • Pharaoh's tomb discovered by archaeologists in Egypt Dr. Josef Wegner, Penn Museum curator who is based in Philadelphia, recently uncovered a groundbreaking discovery: an unknown pharaoh's tomb, dating back 3,600 years.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • Tall, handsome, and polite, Benny—played by Benito Skinner—checks a near-comical number of boxes: valedictorian, football player, homecoming king.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 15 May 2025
  • Soon, 22 boxes of 50,600 lollipops were stacked five boxes high in two walls of Dum-Dums.
    Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • The 17-year-old has already collected two gold medals at this year’s World Cup circuit, one on vault and another on floor exercise.
    Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • The fact that neither could get off the floor was another negative; Queen’s 23-inch no-step vertical was the worst at the combine, and Broome’s 24 1/2-inch vault was not much better.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 19 May 2025

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“Body bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/body%20bag. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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