Corpse in example sentence

But the mother touched them, that poor woman who had just lost her son after having lost her husband, and whose daughter was perhaps a corpse beneath the earth; to say nothing of an invalid grandfather, a child who was lame as the result of a landslip, and a little girl who died of starvation during the strike.

More example sentences with word corpse

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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