How to Use body cavity in a Sentence
body cavity
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Officers allegedly forced Brown, 51, to expose herself in a strip search and examined her body cavities with a flashlight.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
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Stuff the duck’s body cavity with the apples and onions.
—Tim Neville, Outside Online, 8 July 2021
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She was ordered to take all her clothes off for a body cavity search.
—Li Yuan, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
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First, the momma fly injects her eggs into the body cavity of the ant host.
—Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2015
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His blue rubber gloves, slick with blood, are stark against the open body cavity.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2019
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The tenderloins were then removed from the inside of the body cavity, then the first cuts were made into the hind quarters.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2020
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The researchers could now see that the objects were moving inside the starfish's coelom, the body cavity that extends into its arms.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2015
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In this case, the driver contends that he was subjected to a strip search and visual body cavity search.
—Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
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These and the backstraps, which are located along the backbone outside of the body cavity are considered to be the best portions of meat.
—The Editors, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2020
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Even the best pat-down can't find contraband that has been swallowed in a balloon or stuffed into a body cavity.
—Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2017
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The first slice opened the body cavity, and with almost no prodding, Fisher’s video showed one of the big sinkers falling from the walleye’s body cavity.
—cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
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After completely thawing the turkey, remove the giblets and the neck from the body cavity (usually in a sack inside the bird).
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
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The person would hide the drugs in a body cavity, smuggle the drugs into the jail and deliver it to a dealer who would then sell it to other prisoners, the charges say.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2018
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The pig was delivered three days before the big roast, freshly processed from a Missouri provider with the hair removed and the body cavity fully cleansed.
—Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 30 Sep. 2019
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Black blow flies, Stafford testified, only lay eggs in body cavities or wounds.
—David Owens, courant.com, 10 Jan. 2018
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For big game, begin by extracting the inner loins located on the inside of the body cavity.
—The Editors, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2020
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Generally, the machines can't find items stashed in a body cavity.
—Brett Israel, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2010
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One of the problems that can occur during field dressing is having deer feces come into contact with the body cavity and the meat.
—The Editors, Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2019
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The sheriff says a female inmate later helped remove it from a body cavity.
—Fox News, 13 June 2018
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Anglers will likely see small yellow spots on or inside the fish, typically in the body cavity, head, throat, and gills.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 27 May 2020
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On a show that has seen bombs in body cavities, plane crashes, ferry boat crashes and more, anything is possible.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2019
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Before a second officer could perform what the suit described as a body cavity search, Howard fled.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 13 July 2021
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Research has shown that worms stay in the body cavity as long as temperatures stay under 62 degrees.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 27 May 2020
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On deck: Pop-up tents brought out after innings so umps can conduct full body cavity searches on pitchers.
—Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2021
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Plugging his hand into his body cavity didn’t turn out to be necessary after all.
—New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
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During her time in detention, the woman says she was demeaned by officers and subjected to a full-body cavity search by a male guard against her will.
—Tami Makinde, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2020
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When an officer allegedly put on rubber gloves for a body cavity search, Howard ran from the scene, but was apprehended within a block, the suit says.
—Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2021
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Kathryn Ahlers, 28, allegedly pulled out a plastic bag containing drugs from a body cavity between her legs.
—Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2019
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Available as a 35cl bottle, perfect for manbags and gym bottles, or as a pack of three 5cl minis, a great solution to body cavity searches.
—Michael Bartiromo, Fox News, 10 July 2018
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Mitchell and colleagues sampled the grave soil that, during decomposition, fell into the body cavity where the intestines once resided.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
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