How to Use body bag in a Sentence

body bag

noun
  • Dozens of corpses were lined up in body bags on the ground.
    — Alexandra Zavis, latimes.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The bones were put in a small body bag and taken to the morgue.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • This isn't just two guys in their 50s, 'Get him in a body bag' and a crane kick to the face.
    — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 3 May 2018
  • Small cross-body bags for men are one of the biggest trends of 2017.
    — Jake Woolf, GQ, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Steps away, the body of a woman lay in a half-zipped black body bag.
    — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Once in a while a body bag was passed, though none weighed much at all.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Once in a while a body bag was passed, though none weighed much at all.
    — Steve Buscemi, Time, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The corpses, wrapped in blue body bags, were buried Tuesday in a mass grave.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Men prepared the ground and prayed over bright-blue body bags.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • One team loaded white body bags into the back of the truck.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Sandy put him up in in handcuffs rather than in a body bag.
    — Lauren Pinnington, Vulture, 18 June 2021
  • Dries Van Noten’s dudes with the snakeskin cross body bags...
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Firefighters doused the flames while body bags were placed in rows in the field.
    — Bloomberg.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The other was transported in a body bag to the city morgue.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 28 June 2019
  • There would be eight body bags on the ground and no one would have a problem with it.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In the final moments of the episode, his body is removed from the lab in a body bag.
    — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • From that hug with Kanye to the zillion cross-body bags, here's what GQ staffers loved.
    — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 21 June 2018
  • Soldiers from the 59th brigade, which is stationed near the front, pulled out a black body bag.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Its adjustable strap can be worn as a cross-body bag or a hip bag.
    — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The 90-year-old was then placed into a body bag and sent to the morgue for preservation.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In another video, men prayed over a dozen body bags laid out on the ground.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Hayes, who narrowly missed the bombing, helped put the chief in a body bag.
    — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • When the body bag was unzipped, the embalmer was shocked to see the young women's eyes were wide open.
    — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2020
  • His body was able to be lifted, placed in a body bag and taken to the local morgue.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
  • He was brought to a tent filled with body bags, including those of his son.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Both tweets received hundreds of likes and retweets and were posted on the same day as the body bag video.
    — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Mourners wept over the journalists' bodies, which were in body bags and had press vests placed on their chests.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2026
  • In Kahrizak, south of Tehran, videos showed large crowds gathering around dozens of body bags on the pavement near a morgue.
    — Sarah Dean, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Mourners on Thursday wept over the journalists’ bodies, which were covered in body bags and had press vests placed on their chests.
    — Toqa Ezzidin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Other videos published on social media have shown the dead zipped up in black body bags, laid outdoors for families to claim.
    — Robin Wright, New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2026

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