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body bag

noun

Definition of body bag

as in coffin

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Recent Examples of body bag Prosecutors allege Burke later bought a shovel, chainsaws, a body bag, and a blue inflatable pool under a fake name online and used the items to dismember Rivas in his garage. — Nancy Dillon, VIBE.com, 17 June 2026 Health workers are confronting severe shortages of basic supplies, like medicine, masks, gloves, face shields, medicine, testing kits, body bags, running water and soap. — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for body bag

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Noun

Then amble over to the 360 Dome for a cocktail at the coffin bar.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
After all, her musclebound handlers have brought along with them an empty casket, and this is the sort of play where a coffin that appears in the first act is definitely going to go off in the third.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of coffin

Noun

The same circle of dealers also sold artworks to the Metropolitan Museum, where the New York District Attorney’s Office seized five antiquities valued collectively at more than $3 million in 2022; those included a gold sarcophagus.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Inside, a replica King Tut sarcophagus stood against a cinderblock wall, looking out at a table and some chairs.

— Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of sarcophagus

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After all, her musclebound handlers have brought along with them an empty casket, and this is the sort of play where a coffin that appears in the first act is definitely going to go off in the third.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026
Flower wreaths lined the wall outside the Hong Kong Funeral Home, and Tung’s casket was draped in a Chinese flag when it was brought out after the service.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of casket

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Sometimes a box of foreign translations will arrive with the spine of every last book slit open.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Paul Marie flicked a ball off the outside of his foot to Judd, who scored on a volley from the edge of the 6-yard box to give the Earthquakes a 3-0 lead in the 29th.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of box

Noun

Last year, the museum returned fragments of a silk manuscript from China that dated to more than 2,000 years ago and had been looted from a tomb.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
Back then, the town was a rural, rapidly industrializing fringe of Hangzhou with a largely undeveloped archaeological site that featured Neolithic tombs and settlements buried deep beneath farmland.

— Afra Wang, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of tomb

Noun

Nature’s underground vaults Scaling hydrogen into a major energy source depends largely on securing viable, high-capacity storage sites.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
Swift’s propensity for clearing her musical vaults answers to a more-is-better audience ethos.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 Sep. 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

Definition of bier

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