How to Use mortician in a Sentence

mortician

noun
  • The morticians haven’t made him up but just brushed his hair and drawn a blanket to his throat.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
  • There is the slightest smile on his face, not forced or fixed by morticians.
    — Longreads, 7 June 2018
  • The morticians of the Middle Ages pick up bodies to place on a wheelbarrow in the midst of a pestilence.
    — David Plazas, The Tennessean, 17 Apr. 2024
  • When the mortician described the fang marks, Ms. Ngari was distraught.
    — Brian Otieno, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The 97-year-old mortician was the first -- and one of the oldest Texans -- to die from the disease caused by coronavirus.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
  • If a person dies with contacts in...does a mortician take them out?
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 18 May 2021
  • A mortician-corpse love story (based on true events) stylishly plays out to a punk-rock score.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 May 2017
  • The overwhelmed health care workers and morticians, and the many citizens who rose to the moment.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020
  • The mortician’s work had turned Mary, so vivacious in life, into a stranger.
    — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
  • The study showed that morticians laugh more than persons under 20.
    — Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Years before her death last summer at the age of 85, Lois Woodburn cornered a mortician at a party to ask if she could be buried in the ocean.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Mitchell worked as a mortician at a funeral home in the Tidewater area.
    — Steve Lyttle, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The great Clancy Brown stars as a creepy mortician who shares the scariest stories that he’s ever heard with a young woman who comes to his door.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2021
  • In 1996 in the small town of Carthage, Texas, a local mortician murdered the town’s wealthiest heiress, stuffed her corpse in a freezer, and spent her money.
    — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 2 Apr. 2018
  • To create a Black Mummy, Chinchorro morticians cut off the body's head, arms and legs, scooped out the organs and flesh, and often emptied the brain through a hole in the skull.
    — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2016
  • Gloria and her son go to visit a mortician about her stepfather’s death.
    — Zane Moses, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • To retrieve this newer style of pacemaker, on the other hand, the mortician must open the chest and make an incision into the heart itself.
    — Melissa Jayne Kinsey, Slate Magazine, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Also seen on-screen are gerontologists, morticians and prophets of eternal living through chemistry (see a few of them in the gallery above).
    — Matthew Shechmeister, WIRED, 7 July 2011
  • Afterward, morticians rebuilt the body with sticks and animal hair, and covered it in white ash.
    — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2016
  • Tools of the Trade In addition to forceps, needles, and scalpels, morticians use a variety of specialized tools to prepare the dead.
    — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
  • A mortician by trade who liked to invite political leaders over for brandy in the morning, Burns would also lay the groundwork for the state's highways.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2017
  • With the exception of the town’s sword-wielding mortician (Tilda Swinton), Ronnie is the least fazed by the gruesome happenings.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 13 June 2019
  • With the exception of the town's sword-wielding mortician (Tilda Swinton), Ronnie is the least fazed by the gruesome happenings.
    — Author: Sonia Rao, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
  • In her third book, Los Angeles mortician Doughty answers questions about death from young people who don’t hold back.
    — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • There was the time an elderly neighbor died, and Holley carefully prepared her body for the mortician.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • In the embalming room of Compassion and Serenity, the mortician had finished his work.
    — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
  • As a mortician, Miranda believes that viewing the body is of the utmost importance.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 29 July 2021
  • She's Caitlin Doughty, a mortician, the owner of a funeral home in LA, and an advocate for funeral reform.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Tommy plays a mortician enamored with the 1950s and old Hollywood, which Tommy is, too.
    — Samantha Incorvaia, azcentral, 16 June 2019
  • Morticians completed the process by shoving hot coals into the trunk cavity to dry the cadaver.
    — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2016

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