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Recent Examples of body bagIf 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
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Earlier Sunday, Leo celebrated a private Mass near the tomb of St. Peter.
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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.
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.
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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.
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