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Recent Examples of body bag
If no body bag is available, cover the corpse with a blanket.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for body bag
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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While lying in state, the coffin was placed not on an elevated bier, but facing the pews.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2025
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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
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Earlier Sunday, Leo celebrated a private Mass near the tomb of St. Peter.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
11 May 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 29 May. 2025.
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