Example sentences for: corpse

How can you use “corpse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Maggots hatched from eggs laid in the corpse also eat the cadaver, as can wasps, beetles, and other insects.

  • During the police's absence, John Ramsey and a family friend searched the house themselves, and John found JonBenet's corpse in a basement storage room.

  • It seems that he initially played dead in the heat of battle, then awoke to find himself lodged under a messy corpse, the blood from which was running into his mouth.

  • The second scene occurs during Kristallnacht , the night of broken glass when the Nazis destroyed most of the synagogues and many of the Jewish-owned stores in Germany: Oskar discovers that the Jew who sells him his tin drums has committed suicide in his store, while storm troopers rampage around his corpse, poking it with puppets and dropping their pants to shit on the floor.

  • The language used to describe people living with HIV (such as “she is an HIV,” “he is a walking corpse”) clearly conveys stigmatizing attitudes.


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