Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for body bags
Noun
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The Ferryman crams the Warren home with upright coffins filled with his former victims.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025 -
Too often, the radioactive material landed in crematoriums and coffins.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Average caskets run between $2,000 and $5,000 in the United States, but some made of mahogany, bronze or copper can cost upward of $10,000, according to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Consumer Advice department.—
Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
18 Aug. 2025
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The group staged a mock funeral procession in January 2021, with doctors carrying caskets on their shoulders, representing 384 people who had died in the nation’s smallest state of an overdose the previous year.—
Katy Golvala,
Hartford Courant,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Before the most recent excavation, archaeologists had found 17 of these tombs.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Roskilde’s stately cathedral stands solemn and proud—its royal tombs steeped in centuries of candlelit reverence—while chalk-white Møns Klint plunges into the deep Baltic blue, where fossil hunters comb the shore and peregrine falcons wheel overhead.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Cardboard boxes will deteriorate due to heat and water, and animals and bugs will snack on them or possibly use them for nesting materials in the meantime.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
3 Sep. 2025
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The new class of investors isn’t likely to be satisfied with great seats and nice spreads in the sky boxes.—
Howard Homonoff,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Body bags.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/body%20bags. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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