Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of cadavers
A number of chemists were initially skeptical of the study, which was based on analyzing brains from a small sample of cadavers.
—
F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
The dummies' design is informed by data taken from living people's bodies, as well as from cadavers put through their own crash tests — and the new female dummy design, crucially, is informed by data from female bodies.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
Donated human fat, to be exact, which has been procured from cadavers and meticulously processed into a thick injectable called Alloclae.
—Jolene Edgar, Allure, 19 Nov. 2025
Other than Hogan and Worden, Gein’s subjects were all exhumed cadavers, though he is suspected to have been involved in the disappearance of additional women and girls from the area.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
Instead, the evidence suggested that the bodies were dried and preserved, buried in a desiccated state, rather than as fresh cadavers.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
The unclaimed poor To meet the medical professon’s growing demand for cadavers, Massachusetts enacted the first anatomy law.
—Susan E. Lederer, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
The dummies' design is informed by data taken from living people's bodies, as well as from cadavers put through their own crash tests — and the new female dummy design, crucially, is informed by data from female bodies.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
Donated human fat, to be exact, which has been procured from cadavers and meticulously processed into a thick injectable called Alloclae.
—Jolene Edgar, Allure, 19 Nov. 2025
Other than Hogan and Worden, Gein’s subjects were all exhumed cadavers, though he is suspected to have been involved in the disappearance of additional women and girls from the area.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
Instead, the evidence suggested that the bodies were dried and preserved, buried in a desiccated state, rather than as fresh cadavers.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
The unclaimed poor To meet the medical professon’s growing demand for cadavers, Massachusetts enacted the first anatomy law.
—Susan E. Lederer, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadavers
Noun
-
The cemetery has been thrust into the spotlight after a Lancaster County man was accused of harvesting sets of human remains in the middle of the night, hoarding skulls, bones, and corpses, and then offering some of them for sale on his social media accounts.—
Joe Holden,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
-
The limited number of videos that have emerged show hundreds of corpses strewn across the floors of hospitals and morgues.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
-
This is illustrated by Oscar’s daily shooting of wild animals whose carcasses are abandoned, left to rot.—
Oline Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
-
The local carcasses may simply be a run-of-the-mill lobster molt.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
7 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Cadavers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadavers. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
