How to Use mortuary in a Sentence

mortuary

1 of 2 adjective

• The dark alleys, the fog banks, the filthy streets, the mortuary lab, the bordello decor.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 22 Jan. 2018
• Near the mortuary gates, Mallika leaned against a wall.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• Her mother encouraged her to use the mortuary chapel for the plays.
  — Karen Brainard, Ramona Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2017
• Visions of a bloody mortuary ritual danced in the head.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• When the coronavirus reached Guayaquil, Ecuador in the spring, the outbreak spread so fast that mortuary workers could not keep up with mounting deaths.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2020
• In this excerpt from her new book The Chick and the Dead, Valentine explores the relationship between death and sex — and what led her to the mortuary slab in the first place.
  — Good Housekeeping, 26 June 2017
• The original goal of the mission was to find King Tutankhamun’s mortuary temple, said the statement.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2021
• The Rep’s first home theater was a converted mortuary chapel in downtown San Diego.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2022
• At the start of the war, Sparks' attention was almost exclusively on the mortuary staff.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 July 2021
• Illinois, one of the nation's oldest mortuary schools dating back to 1911.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
• It’s at this site where members of the Air Force mortuary affairs team have the solemn task of preparing the remains of America's war dead for burial.
  — Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 28 May 2022
• All four of them were dressed in head-to-toe black, and the mortuary surroundings are decorated with a portrait of Jack, that same gold urn and the booklet from the funeral.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• There are worse places to mourn than Paris, for the moment suitably gray and frightened, as if a mortuary veil were concealing the city’s usually joyous face.
  — Diane Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
• Large Mamluk mortuary complexes create a skyline of domes and minarets over a landscape densely packed with graves and tombs from many eras.
  — Lee Keath, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
• Several dozen police SUVs, with their lights flashing, lined the street across from the mortuary ahead of the procession's arrival.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2021
• The body was taken to a mortuary and later tested positive for Covid-19, according to RNZ.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• One of the prisoners who was regularly beaten there was found dead in his solitary prison cell and his body, covered by a sheet, was taken to a mortuary van, said Mr. Hlushkov.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• Only those in the household, the mortuary staff and a pastor or other religious officiant can be present at the funeral.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 27 June 2020
• Since then the structure has been modified multiple times and has served as a library, theater, mortuary and then a YMCA before the city acquired it.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2021
• Ken, the third character, is a mousy mortuary attendant who claims to have psychic powers and offers his services to the skeptical Joe.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
• Local media have reported that the body remained in the vehicle while a mortuary attendant brought a different body into the church and that’s when the SUV was stolen.
  — Time, 27 Feb. 2020
• These jobs include health care workers, health care personnel, and morgue or mortuary workers.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey, Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2020
• It's also obsessed with funeral rites and mortuary practices, to keep ghouls from rising out of unkempt and abandoned graves.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2022
• Local media reported that the body remained in the vehicle while a mortuary attendant brought a different body into the church and that’s when the SUV was stolen.
  — John Antczak, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2020
• Known as mortuary pouches, the heavy-duty zippered bags are typically used in the military to contain the remains of troops killed in combat.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2020
• The first detailed communication is often the bill from the mortuary service.
  — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• Early on, that meant healthcare workers and people who were likely to encounter the virus in their job, including mortuary workers.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 18 Jan. 2021
• So has revenue from preparing bodies (another 14%), the main skill taught at mortuary school.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• As the fourth generation of a prominent San Diego mortuary family, Skipper Ragsdale was around death all the time.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• The dignified transfer, in which the remains are carried from the plane to a waiting vehicle and then to a mortuary facility, began later in the morning.
  — Daniel Dale, CNN, 30 Aug. 2021

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mortuary

2 of 2 noun

• At the height of the war, the pace at the mortuary could be staggering.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 July 2021
• But this time, the task was much heavier for the crew at the quaint mortuary.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2022
• The body of Nancy Jo Roberts has been at a mortuary for more than a year now.
  — Stefano Dipietrantonio, Cincinnati.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• As the person in charge of the town’s mortuary, Montgomery Dark knows all the events that lead to the death of each of his deceased.
  — Katey Clifford, al, 15 Oct. 2020
• The same night, a body landed in the local mortuary with wounds all over.
  — Supriya Sharma, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2022
• Karvia said a mortuary was able to sift through the dirt over two days and recover some of the girl’s bones.
  — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2019
• New mortuary opens In the fight against disease, the dead are rarely thought of as an active part of war.
  — Popular Science, 3 May 2020
• Seeing a mortuary across the street changed their minds.
  — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2017
• Police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd, which removed the body from the graveyard and took it to a mortuary.
  — Washington Post, 12 June 2020
• But the box the general is in has a bum wheel and the guys have a hard time maneuvering it out of the mortuary.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• In Salt Lake City, firefighters from the two agencies Burchett worked for will escort the hearse to the mortuary.
  — Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
• The death toll only includes victims who were brought to the city's mortuary.
  — Samson Ntale, CNN, 19 Nov. 2020
• Weeks turned to months, one war turned to two, and in time, Sparks gave up his pastor job, committing to his role in the mortuary.
  — Matt Sedensky, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
• In the months since, the family has been trying to work with the mortuary to no avail, Della Donna said.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
• His dad also managed a few groups and owned a venue in Greenville, Stonewall Music Hall, that was once a mortuary.
  — Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News, 3 May 2021
• And then the bodies go missing from Melisende’s mortuary.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2019
• The police said the bodies had been taken to the city mortuary in Mulago.
  — Risdel Kasasira, ajc, 1 Jan. 2023
• Now, across the city, those ambulances have been replaced by green-and-white mortuary vans.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
• During the peak of the coronavirus deaths in London last month, Ahmed brought six to his mortuary on a single day.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 18 May 2020
• After his best friend Nahem was killed by a car bomb, Hadi had gone to the mortuary to collect his friend’s body.
  — Roy Scranton, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2018
• The easiest way to obtain a death certificate is through the funeral home or mortuary at the time of the death.
  — Jonathan I. Shenkman, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• Going and seeing somebody that put a hole in their head from a bullet and having to clean it up and then having to go to the mortuary.
  — Christina Dugan, PEOPLE.com, 1 Jan. 2020
• At one point, Udell’s granddaughter even pleaded with the mortuary to prepare a plot.
  — Adam Popescu, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
• Ezzell said that last year, no more than 10 percent came from mortuaries owned by Corbett or him.
  — Author: Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Oct. 2017
• Parents were asked to come to a mortuary to identify their children.
  — Gerald Imray, ajc, 27 June 2022
• For the first 150 babies, Davey took the caskets to the morgues and gently unzipped the babies from their body bags, wrapped them in blankets and drove their caskets to the El Camino mortuary.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019
• Although some people won’t come because the plays are in a mortuary, Stewart said, a lot of people do attend because of the venue.
  — Karen Brainard, Ramona Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2017
• Amelia is in her late 20s and working at her stepfather’s mortuary.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• His parents were involved in the family mortuary business, which was founded in the 1870s.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• The bodies were taken to a mortuary on St. Vincent where post-mortems will officially determine the cause of death.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024

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