Corpse in example sentence

The ritual tells us that we are desperately zealous people, seeking mirrors that show our heroes as beautiful, youthful, and exceptional; that we are fascinated with a form of death that freezes our illusions into permanent images, like Evita's embalmed corpse.

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When the cricket nears a body of water, such as this swimming pool, it jumps in and drowns, and the worm wriggles out of its suicidal corpse.

The title character of "Ligeia" returns from the dead through the corpse of her husband’s second wife – or at least the opium-addicted narrator thinks she does.

It's a multi-billion-dollar industry, and its economic model is based on the principle of protection, sanitation and beautification of the corpse.

Finally, the industry will beautify the corpse.

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