body bag

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Recent Examples of body bag Emergency crews carried black body bags from a burning apartment building as onlookers wept and hugged in the dark. Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2025 Someone will leave Thailand in a body bag, which is to say, reborn. Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025 As fabulous family matriarch Anita Dupree on CBS‘ new daytime drama Beyond the Gates, Tunie’s latest role involves handling less body bags and more Birkin bags. Andy Swift, TVLine, 25 Feb. 2025 If no body bag is available, cover the corpse with a blanket. Jenny Gross, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for body bag
Recent Examples of Synonyms for body bag
Noun
  • On Thursday morning, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department headquarters to protest funding cuts to the global program known as PEPFAR, or the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
    Orion Rummler, Them., 18 Apr. 2025
  • While all of the men who had been carrying the coffin faced injuries, the son of Aviles reportedly faced the worst injuries and was knocked out.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Think outside the box, or rather, the sarcophagus, and take your crush to the closest museum to sniff the mummies.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Orlok’s full reveal comes when Ellen’s (Lily-Rose Depp) husband Thomas (Nicholas Hoult) heads to the crypt and finds the sarcophagus.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The detective is at a cemetery, where the police are exhuming a casket.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The casket was closed and could easily have been empty.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The German microbrewery/restaurant has installed new TVs in its bier hall and at the bar for your viewing pleasure.
    Sam Allard, Axios, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The Senate may well have all been murdered on Lucilla’s weird, theater-y funeral bier.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Those kinds of things probably weren't very interesting to tomb robbers.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • For our group, this one opened a new world, just as wondrous as the temples and tombs of ancient Egypt.
    Francine Kiefer, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Hader unleashed a slider that started in the zone and ended in the right-handed batter’s box.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • On entry, the room looks like an Amazon warehouse, with boxes piled to the ceiling.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In response, Trump allies have dug through the vault to hit them with their own words.
    Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 13 Apr. 2025
  • In times of rising tension, governments need more gold in their vaults.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025

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“Body bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/body%20bag. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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