How to Use morgue in a Sentence

morgue

noun
Definition of morguenext
  • His body was found in the woods and identified in the morgue.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 27 Feb. 2020
  • But Kolia’s name wasn’t on the lists of bodies at the morgue.
    — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Karl is visiting the morgue, alone, to claim the body of his wife.
    — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The county sent in a freezer truck when the morgue filled.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • Many parts of the country have run out of ICU beds and even morgue space.
    — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Sergey was at the morgue to pick up the body of his baby brother.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Hunter Schafer gets asked to do something (in a morgue).
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 29 May 2024
  • The workers zipped the bags tight and hoisted them aloft, to be taken to the morgue.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Overall, the weekend felt a bit like one long field trip to the morgue.
    — Matthew Scogin, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • So, the deputy coroner offered to take Steve's body to the morgue and run some tests.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2021
  • And the episode ends with Knight delivering lunch to the morgue.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Levchenko, 36 years old, found a shortcut at the start of the war when morgues were overwhelmed.
    — James Marson, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In Stepanakert, the trips from the restaurant to the morgue cannot even bring clarity.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Weeks passed before her father found Ilya’s name on a list of the dead at the morgue.
    — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Workers at the morgue used puddles to clean their bloody hands.
    — Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Hamilton then flashed a photo of Fuller from the morgue up on the courtroom screen.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 16 Nov. 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
  • At the morgue in Bucha, black plastic body bags rustled as they were pulled back from the faces of the dead.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC news, 9 May 2022
  • For months, his body had lain in the Hinds County morgue, unclaimed.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Alla Ryabko stood in the courtyard of the city morgue, trembling with grief and rage.
    — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The people gathered at this morgue just want answers, even in the form of a corpse.
    — Clarissa Ward, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The bodies kept coming to the morgue, but none were leaving.
    — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The family found their mother’s body in the city morgue the next day.
    — Megan Specia Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Cam and Lauren are trapped in the basement of a morgue and have to strategize to escape from the dead.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Maldonado’s name was on the list, his body at the city morgue.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • If the death happens at the hospital, ask if the body can stay in the morgue for a couple of days.
    — Connie Cone Sexton, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 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
  • So many people died that doctors had to step over bodies piled on the floor of the morgue.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • No one saw him again until his body showed up in the military morgue, five years later.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The Asheville hospital set three mobile morgues to be ready for more body recoveries.
    — Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024

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