How to Use morgue in a Sentence

morgue

noun
Definition of morguenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For months, his body had lain in the Hinds County morgue, unclaimed.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The family found their mother’s body in the city morgue the next day.
    — Megan Specia Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Maldonado’s name was on the list, his body at the city morgue.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The hospital could not keep the body — there were already too many in its morgue.
    — Joy Dong, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The police report states that checks were made with a friend, a list of hospitals and the morgue.
    — Gina Barton, USA Today, 2 Mar. 2023
  • On-site is a small farm, laundry house, bakery and morgue.
    — Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
  • But the next day it’s discovered that while the dead cadet’s body lay in the morgue, his heart was cut out and taken.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But the Bucha morgue was farming out overflow corpses to a half dozen other morgues.
    — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Oleg Podorozhniy at a city morgue in Kharkiv last week.
    — Lauren Egan, NBC News, 31 May 2022
  • In another case, an anonymous donor in 1914 sent the brains of two Black children from the D.C. morgue.
    — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Bitu Bingi’s was located next to a door, on the other side of which was a morgue.
    — Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • But each time, the body bag was zipped tightly, and an emergency car quickly took it to the morgue.
    — Dzvinka Pinchuk Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • As the ambulance departed for the morgue, Malen’kiy glanced up and spotted a smiley face drawn in the dust on the back of his van.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • But Jones’s body was not in the ship’s morgue, having been moved at some point to a cooler on a different floor, the suit states.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Barney told of one man who identified his wife and four children in the morgue.
    — Jerome Hansen, Jack Schermerhorn, Ralph Nelson and Ken McCormick, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Paul Fitzgerald, a Manson defense attorney, drove to the morgue to look at the body.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
  • Unable to find his son at local hospitals, Mr. Rangile sped to the morgue.
    — New York Times, 6 July 2022
  • The church bishop, Abdul Masih Bakhit, was also among the dead at the hospital morgue.
    — Samy Magdy, ajc, 14 Aug. 2022
  • However, only nine of those names matched with records of the dead from the hospital morgue.
    — Sam Mednick, TIME, 8 June 2024
  • At the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital morgue, a mother grieved over her dead son’s body.
    — Anas Baba, NPR, 6 June 2024
  • In his life's journey, Robert Grede has traveled from Melody Top to the morgue, though not in the gloomy literal way some of you are imagining right now.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024

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