body bag

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Recent Examples of body bag In the final moments of the episode, his body was removed from the lab in a body bag. Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025 There appeared to be a body bag in the street. Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 12 Aug. 2025 Carry bags that close, wear a cross-body bag, keep all zippers closed, don’t flash cash or jewelry. Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025 Especially when top Big Ten teams like 2023 Michigan, 2024 Ohio State and 2025 Penn State play three body bags out of conference. Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for body bag
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Noun
  • Cerussi and Donovan put the nail in the coffin with five seconds remaining in the first half by connecting for the second time for 34 yards to essentially finish things off with a dominating 34-7 halftime lead.
    Brian Fabry, Boston Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Israel has received a coffin carrying the body of a deceased hostage, the prime minister’s office said in a statement late Friday.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Solomon peppers his story with generational resentments and art-world posturing, while Soderbergh films the interiors of McKellen’s English townhouse like the inner workings of a sarcophagus.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Archaeologists were unsure of what the entire scene depicted until the sarcophagus was handed over to the IAA's conservation team — who assembled the fragments.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The report, obtained by the Star-Telegram through a public records request, mentions two Facebook posts by Jones, but notes that none of the people captured on video dropping off the casket match her physical description.
    Amanda McCoy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The lantern can make a skeleton pop out of the Forsaken Lake, activate audio effects at the Blind Tiger speakeasy front door, bring a terrifying spider tree to life, launch a newscast at a Gore-ing ‘20s newsstand and open the lid on a glowing casket.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 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
  • Inside the 16th-century basilica, his casket won't be put on an elevated bier—as was the case with past popes—but will just be placed on the main alta, simply facing the pews.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With 2,000-year-old ancient Roman roads and Etruscan tombs, grand villas, papal palaces, charming medieval towns, rolling countryside, and unforgettable food and wine, Lazio has something for every traveler.
    Fulvio De Bonis, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Khentika's tomb is a mastaba, one of the few in Egypt to have a curse inscribed on its facade.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The city of Reykjavik in Iceland ticks that box, named the safest city in the world, according to a new ranking from insurance provider Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection that was shared with Travel + Leisure.
    Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Think about your own boxes to tick and narrow it down to one star dish that fills each quadrant of your dream plate.
    Editors of Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Skinner, who won silver in vault at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, spoke up about the issue earlier this year, and is now taking a harder stance.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Fire crews who arrived at the scene found that the worker had been pinned from the waist down by a burial vault — which is believed to have fallen on the individual.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Body bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/body%20bag. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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