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• Corpses surfaced near Portsmouth - was one of them Buster Crabb? Or were neither of them?From the entry neither
• Exhibit A is this photograph of the corpse.From the entry exhibit
• The isabelline (or Daurian) shrike is a greyish-yellow and hunts from prominent perches, impaling the corpses on thorns as a larder.From the entry isabelline
• It shows you piles of corpses, then revels in its mechs and future-war grimdark.2025 February, Matt Killeen, “The Forever Winter”, in PC Gamer (US), number 392, page 77. From the entry grimdark
• When the thrashing stopped, Fina used the pipe to roll the first woman's corpse over.2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024. From the entry smart
• It suggests that medicine has long depended on re-animating corpses for its own epistemological and legitimising ends.2020, Martin O’Brien, Gianna Bouchard, “Zombie sickness: contagious ideas in performance”, in Alan Bleakley, editor, Routledge Handbook of…. From the entry re-member
• Corpse roads evolved, often over high ground, with resting places along the way.2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 70. From the entry corpse road
• Wake up and smell the covfefe and tell the spinning corpse of Robin Day the news.2019, Stewart Lee, “It will take more than ceramics and cheese to unite our divided country”, in March of the Lemmings: Brexit in Print…. From the entry covfefe
• A hand floated beside the corpse, waxish white, looking more like a claw than ever.2016, Sigrid Weidenweber, From Gulag to Freedom, →ISBN. From the entry waxish
• A body – a corpse – my own, I think – wrapped in tape, suspended in gaffa.2012, Katherine Angel, Unmastered, Penguin, published 2014, page 250. From the entry gaffa
• “If you see a corpse and refer to it as nonalive, it doesn’t make it less dead.”2009 April 4, Robin Pogrebin, “Parsons Faculty Is Cut Amid Protests by Artists”, in New York Times. From the entry nonalive
• You have discovered the corpse of Captain Willem of the MSV Majesty.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Xawin. From the entry stiff
• The roads are littered with corpses either charred or melted, their dreams, Mr.2008 May 27, Charles Mcgrath, “At World’s End, Honing a Father-Son Dynamic”, in New York Times. From the entry crozzled
• Were there still wild ravens flying about England looking for corpses to peck at?2006, Hugh Cook, The Succubus and Other Stories, page 579. From the entry ravenless
• Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 4, paragraph 3. From the entry rigor
• "Hassan Ngeze wants to be the corpse at every funeral," those who knew him would add, laughing.2005, Dina Temple-Raston, Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption…. From the entry the corpse at every funeral
• Mummy Browns, from the crushings of Egyptian corpses, for the mortally ill and melancholy.2001, M[ichelle] R. Lovric, “The Language of Colour”, in Carnevale, London: Virago, →ISBN; republished London: Bloomsbury Publishing…. From the entry mummy brown
• A normal human corpse is considered to have three servings of "the other white meat."1999, White Wolf, White Wolf Games Studio, Mind's Eye Theatre Journal, White Wolf Pub, →ISBN. From the entry the other white meat
• On the muddy path leading from her village, dozens of corpses lay unburied.1996, Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1. From the entry Guangshan
• “Bunny has a bad heart.” She glanced toward the corpse in the hallway.1984, Armistead Maupin, Babycakes, page 134. From the entry bally
• Ravages of ‘demon claws and teeth’; corpses ‘mangled, chewed and clawed’.1975, Angela Carter, “The Hidden Child”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 546. From the entry necrophagic
• In the Middle Ages war parties sometimes dropped plague-ridden corpses into their enemies’ village wells.1951 August 13, “Biological Warfare: It is a grim threat, but new microbe detectors offer hope”, in Life. From the entry plague-ridden
• "Stap my vitals, Tuppy, old corpse," I said, concerned, "you're looking pretty blue round the rims."1934, PG Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves. From the entry stap my vitals
• Nearer and nearer sounded the hurrying footsteps and the incoherent yammerings of the corpses.1933, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lost on Venus. From the entry yammering
• In fact, they are keen to get their hands on the Relic, reputedly the corpse of the Doctor’s final incarnation.2023 April, Doctor Who RPG - Unofficial Sourcebooks. From the entry recorporate
• Body parts are scattered about the cemetery where bombs have landed, uprooting the corpses from their flimsy paper-mache coffins.2018, Paul French, City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 234. From the entry Chapei
• Somebody had face-swapped her with a rotting corpse.2018, Andy Marino, Autonomous, New York, N.Y.: Freeform Books, Disney Book Group, →ISBN, page 340. From the entry face-swap
• Inside are the decaying corpses of the farmer and his little girl, in bed together with a knife on the floor.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry wind up
• The corpse of a newborn child was found in waters off the typhoon shelter in Aberdeen on Tuesday morning.2015 December 15, Vivienne Zeng, “Infant’s body found floating near Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the…. From the entry Aberdeen
• A corpse swirled past me, gape-mouthed, fish-white, dull eyed.2014, Robert Holdstock, Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn, →ISBN. From the entry gape-mouthed
• We dissected a variety of human corpses.2014, William C Dietz, Drifter's War. From the entry xenonatomy
• They adorned the towns with avenues of gibbets, the burnt villages with pyramids of heads and the roadsides with impaled corpses.2013, Patrick Leigh Fermor, “A Hanging Glass Box”, in Colin Thubron, Artemis Cooper, editors, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to…. From the entry bashi-bazouk
• A triple hanging kicks the thing off with a snap as three corpses jerk violently from the gallows.2011 January 17, Paul Andersen, “Cultural necrophilia”, in Aspen Times, USA, retrieved 30 Jun 2011. From the entry necktie party
• Soon, only ruin and corpses will remain.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime. From the entry ruin
• Under pressure from subsequent sedimentation and other geological events, the bacterial corpses cooked, compressed and liquefacted, changing their chemical qualities.2008, Sheila Newman, The Final Energy Crisis, page 1. From the entry liquefact
• Behind the olde worlde postcard village, the timbers are rotting away by the beamful and the corpses are piling up.2006, Lisa Selvidge, The Trials of Tricia Blake, page 9. From the entry beamful
• It would leave a cheaply millinered corpse.2003–2004, Henry Bingham, chapter 105, in The Sons of Adam, Garden City, N.Y.: GuildAmerica Books, →ISBN, page 360. From the entry milliner

Meaning of corpse

1. noun A dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal.
2. noun The dead body of any animal with flesh; the dead body of a vertebrate; a carcass.
3. noun A human body in general, whether living or dead.

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Questions about corpse in a sentence

How do you use corpse in a sentence?

Corpse is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Corpses surfaced near Portsmouth - was one of them Buster Crabb? Or were neither of them?”

What is a short sentence with corpse?

“It would leave a cheaply millinered corpse.”

What does corpse mean?

Corpse means a dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal.