How to Use mortician in a Sentence

mortician

noun

• There is the slightest smile on his face, not forced or fixed by morticians.
  — Longreads, 7 June 2018
• The 97-year-old mortician was the first -- and one of the oldest Texans -- to die from the disease caused by coronavirus.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
• If a person dies with contacts in...does a mortician take them out?
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 18 May 2021
• A mortician-corpse love story (based on true events) stylishly plays out to a punk-rock score.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 May 2017
• The overwhelmed health care workers and morticians, and the many citizens who rose to the moment.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020
• The mortician’s work had turned Mary, so vivacious in life, into a stranger.
  — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
• The study showed that morticians laugh more than persons under 20.
  — Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• Years before her death last summer at the age of 85, Lois Woodburn cornered a mortician at a party to ask if she could be buried in the ocean.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• The great Clancy Brown stars as a creepy mortician who shares the scariest stories that he’s ever heard with a young woman who comes to his door.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2021
• In 1996 in the small town of Carthage, Texas, a local mortician murdered the town’s wealthiest heiress, stuffed her corpse in a freezer, and spent her money.
  — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 2 Apr. 2018
• To create a Black Mummy, Chinchorro morticians cut off the body's head, arms and legs, scooped out the organs and flesh, and often emptied the brain through a hole in the skull.
  — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2016
• Gloria and her son go to visit a mortician about her stepfather’s death.
  — Zane Moses, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• To retrieve this newer style of pacemaker, on the other hand, the mortician must open the chest and make an incision into the heart itself.
  — Melissa Jayne Kinsey, Slate Magazine, 26 Oct. 2017
• Also seen on-screen are gerontologists, morticians and prophets of eternal living through chemistry (see a few of them in the gallery above).
  — Matthew Shechmeister, WIRED, 7 July 2011
• Afterward, morticians rebuilt the body with sticks and animal hair, and covered it in white ash.
  — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2016
• Tools of the Trade In addition to forceps, needles, and scalpels, morticians use a variety of specialized tools to prepare the dead.
  — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• A mortician by trade who liked to invite political leaders over for brandy in the morning, Burns would also lay the groundwork for the state's highways.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2017
• With the exception of the town's sword-wielding mortician (Tilda Swinton), Ronnie is the least fazed by the gruesome happenings.
  — Author: Sonia Rao, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
• With the exception of the town’s sword-wielding mortician (Tilda Swinton), Ronnie is the least fazed by the gruesome happenings.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• In her third book, Los Angeles mortician Doughty answers questions about death from young people who don’t hold back.
  — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• There was the time an elderly neighbor died, and Holley carefully prepared her body for the mortician.
  — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 9 Jan. 2022
• In the embalming room of Compassion and Serenity, the mortician had finished his work.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
• As a mortician, Miranda believes that viewing the body is of the utmost importance.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 29 July 2021
• She's Caitlin Doughty, a mortician, the owner of a funeral home in LA, and an advocate for funeral reform.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2023
• Tommy plays a mortician enamored with the 1950s and old Hollywood, which Tommy is, too.
  — Samantha Incorvaia, azcentral, 16 June 2019
• Morticians completed the process by shoving hot coals into the trunk cavity to dry the cadaver.
  — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2016
• The mortician explained that a full body burial at sea is a bit more complicated than simply heaving a corpse overboard.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• As the mortician got to work preserving her body later that week, the lives of Sierra’s family were being reorganized in ways both big and small.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
• The mortician told Brock that Moran’s wallet — including his driver’s license with his mother’s address, Social Security card and a photo of his daughter — was inside the body bag.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
• His company, which provides funeral services, has been buying up morticians in recent years, too, and wants to continue doing so.
  — Verena Sepp, Fortune, 18 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024