How to Use morgue in a Sentence

morgue

noun

• Cam and Lauren are trapped in the basement of a morgue and have to strategize to escape from the dead.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• When infants died in the hospital, a standard practice was to put their remains in a bereavement box to send to the morgue.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
• At least 11 bodies were sent straight to the morgue, Fire Chief Li Ching-hsiu told reporters at the scene.
  — Fox News, 14 Oct. 2021
• When the county morgue fills up, bodies are sent to Cleveland or Lake County for autopsies.
  — Mark Gillispie, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2021
• Then the corpse of the Black man disappears from the morgue, only to show up again when another white man in Money is murdered.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• But people in the community said they were disturbed that the bodies going in and out of the morgue only degrade the community.
  — Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Bibb County authorities at the time kept the boy’s body in the morgue for about two weeks and exhausted all efforts to identify him and find his family.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 1 Nov. 2021
• And as Ambassador of Fun, Teddy realizes that once the air conditioning is fixed, the best place to cool off is the morgue.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• Later that night, police took the family to the morgue, and Regina Andrews’ brother identified her body.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2021
• In addition, a temporary morgue trailer was parked outside the hospital located in Foley.
  — al, 6 Oct. 2021
• But on a recent morning, as a crowd of men and boys gathered outside the morgue at the hospital, the bodies of the two soldiers, shrouded in white cloths, were loaded into an ambulance side by side.
  — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
• The Alabama Department of Public Health sent temporary morgue units into the area.
  — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
• But the promised community treatment centers didn’t materialize, so for decades, untreated mentally ill people have landed in jails and prisons, on the streets and in the morgue.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Sergey was at the morgue to pick up the body of his baby brother.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• Hunter Schafer gets asked to do something (in a morgue).
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 29 May 2024
• The workers zipped the bags tight and hoisted them aloft, to be taken to the morgue.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2022
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• At the morgue in Bucha, black plastic body bags rustled as they were pulled back from the faces of the dead.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC news, 9 May 2022
• For months, his body had lain in the Hinds County morgue, unclaimed.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
• Alla Ryabko stood in the courtyard of the city morgue, trembling with grief and rage.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024