How to Use mortuary in a Sentence

mortuary

1 of 2 adjective
  • Her mother encouraged her to use the mortuary chapel for the plays.
    — Karen Brainard, Ramona Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The dark alleys, the fog banks, the filthy streets, the mortuary lab, the bordello decor.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • These jobs include health care workers, health care personnel, and morgue or mortuary workers.
    — Amelia Pak-Harvey, Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2020
  • At the start of the war, Sparks' attention was almost exclusively on the mortuary staff.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 July 2021
  • It's also obsessed with funeral rites and mortuary practices, to keep ghouls from rising out of unkempt and abandoned graves.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2022
  • Illinois, one of the nation's oldest mortuary schools dating back to 1911.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The first detailed communication is often the bill from the mortuary service.
    — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 24 Aug. 2020
  • So has revenue from preparing bodies (another 14%), the main skill taught at mortuary school.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Early on, that meant healthcare workers and people who were likely to encounter the virus in their job, including mortuary workers.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 18 Jan. 2021
  • When the coronavirus reached Guayaquil, Ecuador in the spring, the outbreak spread so fast that mortuary workers could not keep up with mounting deaths.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2020
  • The state has requested five mortuary trailers from the federal government to store bodies.
    — NBC News, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The original goal of the mission was to find King Tutankhamun’s mortuary temple, said the statement.
    — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Only those in the household, the mortuary staff and a pastor or other religious officiant can be present at the funeral.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 27 June 2020
  • There are worse places to mourn than Paris, for the moment suitably gray and frightened, as if a mortuary veil were concealing the city’s usually joyous face.
    — Diane Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Known as mortuary pouches, the heavy-duty zippered bags are typically used in the military to contain the remains of troops killed in combat.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Mortuary president Spencer Leak eagerly signed on and also spoke during the two-hour service.
    — CBS News, 29 June 2017
  • Ken, the third character, is a mousy mortuary attendant who claims to have psychic powers and offers his services to the skeptical Joe.
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
  • All four of them were dressed in head-to-toe black, and the mortuary surroundings are decorated with a portrait of Jack, that same gold urn and the booklet from the funeral.
    — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Researchers believe that Sculptor’s Cave was a mortuary site where bodies were left to decay naturally.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The dignified transfer, in which the remains are carried from the plane to a waiting vehicle and then to a mortuary facility, began later in the morning.
    — Daniel Dale, CNN, 30 Aug. 2021
  • These mortuary tablets represent people who migrated from Vietnam to Japan with the promise of a job or education.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Several dozen police SUVs, with their lights flashing, lined the street across from the mortuary ahead of the procession's arrival.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2021
  • When a nearby coroner in Eastern Kentucky loaned him a four-person mortuary cooler, people twice tried to steal the generator keeping it cold.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Marquis Jefferson argued that he had been denied any involvement in the funeral planning by the mortuary Body had engaged.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
  • As the fourth generation of a prominent San Diego mortuary family, Skipper Ragsdale was around death all the time.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The body was taken to a mortuary and later tested positive for Covid-19, according to RNZ.
    — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Since then the structure has been modified multiple times and has served as a library, theater, mortuary and then a YMCA before the city acquired it.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Local media reported that the body remained in the vehicle while a mortuary attendant brought a different body into the church and that’s when the SUV was stolen.
    — John Antczak, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Local media have reported that the body remained in the vehicle while a mortuary attendant brought a different body into the church and that’s when the SUV was stolen.
    — Time, 27 Feb. 2020

mortuary

2 of 2 noun
  • But this time, the task was much heavier for the crew at the quaint mortuary.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • At the height of the war, the pace at the mortuary could be staggering.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 July 2021
  • His body has been at a mortuary while the legal battle played out.
    — ABC News, 23 June 2026
  • The same night, a body landed in the local mortuary with wounds all over.
    — Supriya Sharma, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Karvia said a mortuary was able to sift through the dirt over two days and recover some of the girl’s bones.
    — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The death toll only includes victims who were brought to the city's mortuary.
    — Samson Ntale, CNN, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Now, across the city, those ambulances have been replaced by green-and-white mortuary vans.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • New mortuary opens In the fight against disease, the dead are rarely thought of as an active part of war.
    — Popular Science, 3 May 2020
  • Police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd, which removed the body from the graveyard and took it to a mortuary.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2020
  • The body of Nancy Jo Roberts has been at a mortuary for more than a year now.
    — Stefano Dipietrantonio, Cincinnati.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Parents were asked to come to a mortuary to identify their children.
    — Gerald Imray, ajc, 27 June 2022
  • This scale of mortuary effort is unexpected for this time and place.
    — Elizabeth Sawchuk, The Conversation, 1 Jan. 2026
  • But the box the general is in has a bum wheel and the guys have a hard time maneuvering it out of the mortuary.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Some did it in funeral homes or mortuaries.
    — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Payne started as a part-timer at James mortuary in 1986.
    — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Beneath the booms, an army mortuary unit moved through the devastation.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Amelia is in her late 20s and working at her stepfather’s mortuary.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The new owner told him this week that the mortuary is beyond capacity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Bhekinkosi Ngcobo's family found his body at a local mortuary with a deep gash across his neck.
    — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The mortuary is in the city's North Town neighborhood.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Dozens of people gathered at the gas station and thrift store across from the mortuary to honor and mourn Kirk.
    — Lauren De Young, AZCentral.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • At one point, Udell’s granddaughter even pleaded with the mortuary to prepare a plot.
    — Adam Popescu, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
  • Weeks turned to months, one war turned to two, and in time, Sparks gave up his pastor job, committing to his role in the mortuary.
    — Matt Sedensky, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
  • Ezzell said that last year, no more than 10 percent came from mortuaries owned by Corbett or him.
    — Author: Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Going and seeing somebody that put a hole in their head from a bullet and having to clean it up and then having to go to the mortuary.
    — Christina Dugan, PEOPLE.com, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The police said the bodies had been taken to the city mortuary in Mulago.
    — Risdel Kasasira, ajc, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The easiest way to obtain a death certificate is through the funeral home or mortuary at the time of the death.
    — Jonathan I. Shenkman, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • They were all headed for college with big dreams, of working in healthcare or science or, in Bonez’s case, in a mortuary.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
  • As the person in charge of the town’s mortuary, Montgomery Dark knows all the events that lead to the death of each of his deceased.
    — Katey Clifford, al, 15 Oct. 2020
  • After his best friend Nahem was killed by a car bomb, Hadi had gone to the mortuary to collect his friend’s body.
    — Roy Scranton, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2018

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