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How to use morgue in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Morgue means a supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance. Example: “See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.”

Examples of morgue by meaning

nounThe archive and background information division of a newspaper.

  • Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue1921 July 2, Joseph F. Kwapil, Fourth Estate, page 5
  • See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 109

More sentences with morgue

  • “Now maybe I can get the bodies to the morgue and determine TOD.”2015, Katherine Pritchett, What the River Knows. From the entry tod
  • "Don't forget to bring the gun back tomorrow morning," Peg-leg said, peg-legging it back into the morgue.2014 -, Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster, →ISBN, page .41. From the entry peg-leg
  • The woman lying dead in the morgue was the woman at the party.1999, Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut (motion picture), spoken by Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise). From the entry charade
  • Yes, send the kid to the morgue.2010, Sandra Glahn, Informed Consent, page 306. From the entry post
  • Just as amazing, gruesome morgue photos of some of the madman's street-walker victims also resurfaced after being missing for decades.1992 October 27, “Weekly World News”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 37. From the entry resurface
  • Once a body is brought back to the makeshift morgue at the airport in Gulfport, Mississippi, a forensic pathologist assigns a chip to it.2005 September 23, Siobhan Morrissey, “Identifying the Dead: the Electronic Toe Tag”, in Time, retrieved 19 Dec 2015. From the entry toe tag
  • And so across the bridge and into the enceinte of the massive walls, threading their way towards the quarter where the morgue lay.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 824. From the entry enceinte
  • It was the height of Covid: New York had been decimated by the disease, makeshift morgues and a ghostly city abandoned by anyone with the means to leave.2022 August 25, Emily Maitlis, “I’m not a disgruntled ex-BBC employee – but when an agent of the Tory party decides the broadcaster’s…. From the entry bestloved
  • To one side, the remaining meat-wagon was operating its mechanical scoop and shovelling the bits and pieces of the Tittering into the refrigerated interior of the morgue vehicle.2015, Stephen Marley, Dread Dominion, →ISBN. From the entry meat-wagon
  • The old man wandered away from his retirement home, dropped dead on the beach and was picked up by the meat wagon and sent to the morgue.2000, Stephen Hunter, "Varicose Vain" (film review of The Crew), Washington Post, 25 Aug., p. C01. From the entry meat wagon

Meaning of morgue

  1. noun A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
  2. noun A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
  3. noun The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

Full definition of morgue

Questions about morgue in a sentence

How do you use morgue in a sentence?
Morgue is used as a noun. For example: “See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.”
What is a short sentence with morgue?
“Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue”
What does morgue mean?
Morgue means a supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.

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