How to Use body bag in a Sentence

body bag

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  • Dozens of corpses were lined up in body bags on the ground.
    — Alexandra Zavis, latimes.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Firefighters doused the flames while body bags were placed in rows in the field.
    — Bloomberg.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Dries Van Noten’s dudes with the snakeskin cross body bags...
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2018
  • And way too late too for all innocent victims in the other body bags.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The Studio Bag can worn three ways: as a cross-body bag, satchel or backpack.
    — Laura Compton, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The sight of sidewalks littered with red body bags will not be easily forgotten.
    — Michael Taube, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • These cross-body bags play off the resurgent cool of the suddenly hot fanny pack, but things get weird and veer into tool belt territory.
    — Liz Raiss, GQ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • This week, a band of young volunteers wearing plastic gloves worked amid the rubble, pulling corpses cut in half out from under piles of bricks and putting them into white body bags.
    — Balint Szlanko, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Wearing a distressed striped sweater, cropped chinos, and white low-top sneakers, Hadid gave the ensemble a modern spin with a red and white cross-body bag, which has a crackled leather finish.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The brothers were taken from their Gentilly home in body bags, along with their mother Monique Smith, after the March 10 shooting.
    — Emily Lane, NOLA.com, 22 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The other was transported in a body bag to the city morgue.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 28 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • If a body bag is not available, crew should cover the body with a blanket and close the person’s eyes, IATA says.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Feb. 2024

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