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Recent Examples of body bagOther video showed numerous body bags at the hospital amid grieving relatives.—Abeer Salman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024 In May, protesters held late-night demonstrations outside the private homes of several university regents, placing fake bloody body bags on their lawns and tacking a list of demands to their front doors, according to a statement from university president Santa J. Ono.—Jake Tapper, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024 One rescue worker took a tiny body bag and leaned into the pickup truck for the infant’s body.—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024 Five minutes in a full body bag can lower core body temperature by as much as 1 degree Fahrenheit.—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for body bag
Its lush grounds include a historic houseboat, shingled windmill and the thousand-year-old Chinese sarcophagus containing some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes.
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Deborah Netburn,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
That's where Joseph Keil found a skeleton in a sarcophagus filled with water, but for some reason, Keil only removed the cranium from the tomb before sealing it back up.
Easton had his wife’s body placed in an open casket.
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Ariane Lange,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Jan. 2025
The show struggles a bit in places to credibly evoke the relative innocence (or quiet oppression) of the 1970s and there are some moments of cluttered staging that just don’t work; as one example, a big gag involving kids hiding in a coffin kinda needs a casket to work.
In it, a small baby lies on a tomb of red velvet, her skin and dress a rocky gray (Eguiguren Arte de Hispanomérica, D10) and eye sockets blank, an icy contrast to the fresh roses and wildflowers with which she is adorned.
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Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.
The red button, hidden in a wooden box and was used by Trump during his first term, was again spotted on the desk at the Oval Office after Trump was sworn in a week ago, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Peter Burke,
Fox News,
27 Jan. 2025
Then, in September 2023, Swift made her first appearance at a Chiefs game when she was spotted in a box with Kelce's mother, Donna Kelce.
While pulling off the diamond heist of a lifetime, Wilson and Nick become friends by breaking into the most secure vaults in Nice, France’s World Diamond district.
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Malik Peay,
Essence,
17 Jan. 2025
Her husband Robert Sims (Common) leads her and their son to the vault, but the all-knowing voice says only Camille can stay—despite Sims’ endless dedication to the silo, he is not deemed the best person to be the next head of IT.
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