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Sentence Examples I had already seen some photographs of the corpses being exhumed and reburied, and of the cemetery being built. Therefore he has dug one small cove in the ice and has passed the night with the corpses of the six dead men. The make-up people excelled themselves with lots of dirty fingernails and a welter of warts, wens and rotten corpses. Of interest I also like to stretch the subgenre of zombies to cover films containing characters that are reanimated corpses. And there are hundreds if not thousands more corpses still to be recovered from the city's flooded streets and homes. Those regicides who were already dead, such as John Bradshaw and Oliver Cromwell, had vengeance wreaked on their disinterred corpses. The ancients knew the art of spinning amianthus and weaving it into incombustible cloth in which the corpses of important people were burned. Here's another season full of crazed killers, zombified corpses, brutal stabbings, and all the rest of the trappings that the fans enjoy. They were not like Da Vinci, who would anatomize corpses to learn about the conformation of the human body. More apotropaic methods included stuffing objects into the orifices of corpses or confronting the ambulatory blood-sucker with a crucifix. Amy peered round at the vast landscape surrounding her and held her fingers to her nose to block the awful stench of rotting corpses. Yet as belief in satanic influence on suicides declined, so too did faith in the notions of punishing corpses and confiscating property. In 1346, Caffa was under siege by the Tartars who catapulted plague-ridden corpses over the city walls in an effort to flush out the inhabitants. The fact that many crustaceans, being omnivorous, may act as scavengers and eat the corpses of fellow aquatic creatures need not be a deterrent. Last fall brought another disaster, with the corpses of thousands of loons, mergansers, other ducks, and gulls washing up on Lake Erie's shores. It is believed that corpses that have been removed from their tombs may be turned into zombies, who then serve the will of their masters. The girl, who had never tossed her cookies after seeing the corpses, even the first time, couldn't hold her liquor. The production of corpses becomes narrativised as a collection of images of patriots, martyrs or betrayers. The first four episodes build in mystery as we try to piece together recurring motifs of corpses, shared food, reversals of power. Heavy rain had churned the camp's dirt roads to mud, but failed to drown the smell of rotting corpses that still lie beneath mounds of masonry. Show More Sentences So you will have mounds of unburied corpses on the streets, which means typhoid or cholera outbreaks. Hualien police said they found two unclothed female corpses on a riverbed yesterday. They believed vampires to be the undead corpses of witches, suicides and folk who had been excommunicated by the Church. Then for the next 8 hours during the second stage I evacuated corpses or dead bodies. He emphasizes that their dead bodies, their corpses, will fall in the wilderness. I realized today that, all week, I've been referring to the dead I've seen as bodies and corpses. Members of the Parsi group are struggling to modify their ancient practice of so-called sky burials, setting out human corpses for the vultures. Inside, an exhibition of pictures of mutilated corpses and glass cases containing the bones of the victims concludes with a visitors' book. Police also said several of the corpses had their faces badly mutilated from the gunshot wounds. There's a whole craft industry based on vehicles for transferring corpses from the chapel to the boneyard. There are thousands of other corpses of his victims mouldering, unknown and unmourned, in unmarked graves. Free trade unpeoples villages and peoples poorhouses, consolidates farms, and gluts the graveyards with famished corpses. His nose picked up no scent of a living body, only that of blood, corpses, soot, and other chaos. And third, that Mozart was bundled unceremoniously into a pauper's grave with miscellaneous corpses on a snowy night. The World Health Organization has said that following natural disasters, bacteria and viruses from corpses die within 24 hours. Another option would be to send the corpses home in airtight body bags for closed-casket burials. During the First World War, men lived like worms burrowed into the earth, surrounded by rotting corpses and filth. When the liberators arrived they found more than 20,000 naked corpses of prisoners, who had starved to death, lying unburied on open ground. Challenges become threats, pop heroes become corpses and present tense becomes past participle. Her mixture burned the pestilential corpses that threatened the defenders and her illuminations at night thwarted Vandal attacks. Show More Sentences While the images of the corpses themselves were pixellated, there was no blurring of the national sense of shock. The displays are focused intensely on the corpses and emphasize the painstaking choreography of the state funerals in the capital. Each character is linked by more than just work, as hold-ups, corpses, missing children, affairs and other events conspire to alter their lives. The men moved in among the densely packed animals, smashed skulls with five-foot hickory clubs and flayed the twitching corpses. The corpses had not been flayed or dismembered in any way, but succumbed to their stab wounds and blood loss. He would flay the flesh of unresurrected corpses and use the skin to make lampshades and chair covers and clothes. He raced away from the stunned group of men, staring at their dead comrades' burnt corpses. Von Hagens, who was born in 1945, is reported to have had a lively interest in the human body, particularly in corpses, since he was a child. And he couldn't just leave her here either, since someone's bound to find the corpses of the dead gang members. The records say he had some medical training but aside from carving up dead corpses, I never saw anything to indicate that it's true. The commander quickly moved on without glancing twice at the dead corpses, hoping that he would not join them in battle. One night, while trying to get his friend Malik some free studio time, he stumbles upon the lifeless corpses of two dead bodyguards. Bushes lay crushed and we found countless corpses of animals that looked as if something had really torn into them. She looked back down at the corpses of the dead guards and the bodies of the unconscious guards. He secured a job in a medical school morgue and did his earliest performances with dead animals and human corpses. Mourning families had been forced to keep the corpses of dead loved ones in their homes because there was no way undertakers could reach them. Lisa Morgan, 30, a legal secretary from Chatham, Kent, clung to a tree for six hours, surrounded by human corpses and dead animals. Attitudes about nature as backdrop, commodity, enemy have been dug out and re-animated as if they were not ancient corpses moldering and corrupt. Formalin, a solution of formaldehyde, is also used in tanning leather and preserving corpses. They hide it for the men to find amongst the corpses that are transported to the crematorium. Show More Sentences Many fall prey to poachers who kill them for meat and steal eggs from the corpses to sell as aphrodisiacs. A slight shudder slid over him, footsteps on his grave, a shadowy ghoul with its gargoyle grin threatening to exhume long-buried corpses. We were almost fed up seeing all the corpses and pyres along the bank of the river. Amidst floating human and animals corpses, only the sea waves break the eerie silence. In Indonesia's Aceh province, fast emerging as the quake's ground zero, survivors scrabbled for food among mud and corpses. I studied the nude, and at the Medical Institute we were made to dissect corpses. Forensic entomology, the study of the insects associated with human corpses, is used to establish the elapsed time since death in murder cases. It's up to Chef and the other boys of South Park to solve the mystery of how to destroy these cannibal corpses before the evil fiends overrun the entire town. The corpses of the prisoners are transported directly to the crematorium. Every night their corpses stacked higher in Penang's streets and hospitals and makeshift refugee camps. The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose. The ghastly sight of mutilated corpses disinterred from mass graves is psychologically incompatible with calculations about scarce resources, opportunity costs and trade-offs. At the time, the knowledge of anatomy was developing rapidly but anatomists were only legally allowed to dissect the corpses of executed criminals. When the corpses of two Chinese fishermen were fished out of the sea in the Falklands' territorial waters last February, a forensic pathologist had to be flown in from London. Soon after the preserved corpses were unveiled, curious people began paying workers a few pesos for a peek at the tombs. It was impossible to independently verify the death toll, but the hospital morgue was so full yesterday that five corpses had been laid outside under blankets. Medical personnel fear an outbreak of cholera and other contagious diseases if the bodies of the corpses are not cleared before they start decaying. At first he took us along the riverfront explaining about the burning ghats and the reasons why some corpses are cremated and others are not, like babies and holy men. Whenever a contractor digs into Berlin at a building site, he may dig up an unexploded bomb, exhume corpses, or liberate the fear trapped in a buried air raid shelter. The dusty barren ground was littered with piles of unburied corpses. Show More Sentences This leads King into an extended digression on Michelangelo's use of nudity, including the evidence that the artist had studied dissected corpses in great detail. The decomposing corpses wore the black pants and belts that fighters wear, although some were barefoot. Sandbags were attached to the corpses to make them sink but the disposal was botched. No German bounty hunter ever teamed up with a slave to kill wanted men and claim the reward for their corpses. Whether soldiers or civilians, Capa's subjects were always recognizably, indeed capaciously, human, and their corpses remained, for the most part, buried in private. According to reports at the time, their charred corpses were discovered two months later. Slave and ivory caravans that passed through the region as late as the second half of the 19th century, may also have provided a gruesome supply of corpses. They ran over the dead grass, now strewn with dead bodies and corpses. Never underestimate the metaphorical power of reanimated corpses. Death and its hideous aftermath can come at the hands and blackened teeth of reanimated corpses or the deranged, power hungry gun muzzle of a fellow survivor. The derelict husks of each burnt-out building cast ominous shadows onto the empty streets, where still-decaying corpses lay abandoned around every corner. Some 100,000 kilograms of decomposed corpses were transported to an estimated 30 secondary burial sites. But as it takes away the safety net, their corpses wind up in fishing nets. The ancient Egyptians mummified more than just human corpses. A weeping elderly woman identified one of the corpses as her dead husband. They require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others. All businesses using formalin are required to ensure there are no leakages of the cancer-causing chemical, which is mostly used to preserve corpses or as a disinfectant. Body snatchers generally obtained fresh corpses from new graves. A few days after this fateful visit, each visionary reported seeing images of rivers of blood and headless corpses. The corpses were left where they lay pending forensic examination today. Show More Sentences The pavements are littered with the corpses of good men who've tried. Beginning more than two millennia ago Scythian archers dipped their arrowheads into manure and rotting corpses to increase the deadliness of their weapons. He might just save his regime, even if he rules little more than a wasteland filled with corpses. In Arabic legend, a ghoul is a creature that eats both stolen corpses and children. The monks divide up the thousands of corpses by gender, age, and profession, grouping them in separate chambers. At a casual glance it might seem just another book about sarcophagi, another archaeological survey of tombs, funerary ritual, and the care of corpses. There are, in India, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold, pobby corpses, and hide in trees near the roadside till a traveller passes. Asquith later recalled seeing, as a schoolboy, the corpses of five murderers left hanging outside Newgate. But one changes from heat to cold into a kind of congealment reminiscent of the end of time, in which decaying corpses change to be born again. Marc knows all too well that a party without punch-ups, drugs, rug-munchers and corpses is hardly worth sticking around for. For instance, human corpses have been used since the 1960s as crash test dummies to check various restraints and airbag devices in cars. Nearer and nearer sounded the hurrying footsteps and the incoherent yammerings of the corpses. Dead zones are created when the algae die off all at once and their little corpses decompose. The navy said that its Sirio patrol ship was docking in Pozzallo, southern Sicily, with 266 migrants and 18 corpses aboard. Other, bloated and decomposing corpses are piled on top of them. There have been 2 examples of corpses exhumed from crypts during archeologic excavations in the twentieth century. Decomposing corpses led to a rampant plague so severe it spread to Syria. I saw airplanes pouring death over those huddled under the roofs, snipers chasing terrified escapers, and corpses swimming in their blood. Repair Bots search for damaged systems and even resurrect dead enemies making gibbing corpses more important than ever. The goat corpses were left where they were killed to rot and restore important nutrients to the soil. Show More Sentences All centipedes and spiders are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known. Lucia del Monte, in that city he painted a picture representing Pope St. Pasquale, a great church-builder and exhumer of holy corpses. In January 1661, the corpses of Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw were exhumed and hanged in chains at Tyburn. Some of its untruths could easily be unveiled by the soldiers who recovered corpses. I understand there is no difficulty in obtaining corpses at the Naval Hospital, but, of course, it would have to be a fresh one. However, there as elsewhere the convention is not used for minor figures shown engaged in some activity, such as the captives and corpses. This suggests the corpses lay exposed to decompose and were interred in the burial chambers defleshed, as parcels of bone. Contrary to custom and against the wishes of the Church, many corpses were loaded onto barges and buried at sea beyond the mouth of the Tagus. The British forced the remaining SS guards to gather up the corpses and place them in mass graves. Among the ruins were the corpses of 11 of the 39 Spaniards who had stayed behind as the first colonists in the New World. The front of the elbows were padded to protect his knees as, presumably, he knelt over his victims' corpses. On 29 April 1945, the corpses of Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and other Fascist leaders were hanged in Piazzale Loreto. Usually the corpses were naked, sometimes with some items of clothing with them, particularly headgear. These larger organisms would have produced droppings and corpses that were large enough to fall fairly quickly. For example, snapping turtles are used by police to find underwater corpses because of their penchant for dead flesh, he said. We see apocalyptic wastelands pocked with shell craters and crisscrossed by hedgerows of barbed wire stuffed with corpses. In 2011, there were reports of 640 corpses having been recovered from the Monkey William Mine in Chibondo. His description of the rete mirabile, the network of arteries at the base of the brain, shows he dissected animals as well as human corpses, since it does not exist in humans. Seeing that the Irish are using the cauldron to revive their dead, he hides among the Irish corpses and is thrown into the cauldron by the unwitting enemy. Firefighters were sent to extinguish the raging flames, and teams of workers and ordinary citizens were ordered to remove the thousands of corpses before disease could spread. Show More Sentences Vesalius dissected human corpses, whereas Galen dissected animal corpses. Among other corpses were his librettists Montagu Slater and Eric Crozier. I took a course in xenoanatomy. We dissected a variety of human corpses. Before the start of the Cambrian, their corpses and droppings were too small to fall quickly towards the seabed, since their drag was about the same as their weight. Funerary practices continued the Bronze Age tradition of burning corpses and placing the remains in urns, a characteristic of the Urnfield culture. As these bones form a large part of the burials known this may have been a quite regular treatment including the ritual manipulation and dismemberment of human corpses. In an effort to decrease the number of corpses stored at the crypt, the Coroner's Office in May contracted with three crematories to reduce the backlog. Among their numbers are bottom feeders that scoop up mud and use their gills to sift out food, and scavengers in search of rotting corpses which drift down from above. The corpses provided a means to learn through hands on experience. Walker deliberately contaminated the water wells of Rivas with corpses. Certainly, the presence of a punctured navicular suggested scavenger involvement in disarticulating the extremities of at least one of the corpses. Seeing that the Irish are using the cauldron to revive their dead, Efnisien hides among the corpses and destroys the cauldron, sacrificing himself in the process. And though Corpses is shot very, very stylistically, full of rapid-fire cutaways and over-the-top art direction. If you thought the precursor, House of 1,000 Corpses, was the equivalent of drinking the contents of a used barf bag, you may want to steer clear of this gruesome follow-up. Corpses are left outdoors and scientifically observed for rigour and maggots, to help budding crime scene investigators learn to determine time of death. Corpses of soldiers and civilians littered the area, along with thousands of dead cattle and horses. Corpses may have been placed in nearby caves until they decomposed, when the bones were moved to the tomb. Examples from Classical Literature Why have the fields of Magenta and Solferino been piled with the corpses of dying heroes? The deck was strewn with mangled corpses, the black flag was shot from the mast. I expected to see them putrefying, running into sanies, like corpses left to rot in the open air. Six pairs of boots, taken from the corpses, fell noisily on to the hard ground. Enters Kent, and at this moment the corpses of Goneril and Regan are brought in. Quickly Tharn propped the torch of gumwood against a tree bole and dragged the two corpses into the brush. The whole country, from Great Packington to halesowen, was strewn with blood-smeared corpses. In a train wreck, a soldier asserted that he had seen dozens of smashed corpses, although only one person was harmed. Monseigneur de Belzunce sat upon the seat of the tumbrel laden with corpses, driven by a convict stained with every crime. Here the mourners gathered round to take a last look of the uncoffined corpses of the brave. He cites the burial fees paid to the parson as twice as much for coffined as for uncoffined corpses. Before the men could drop them and unsling their rifles they were heaps of corpses. Iron which has been in contact with the bone ash of burnt corpses has certain characteristics. A Vendean priest celebrated the mass standing in blood and upon mutilated corpses. Necrophily, or a sexual attraction for corpses, is sometimes regarded as related to pygmalionism. He saw the perambulating corpses, the ghastly death's heads of men who labored in the dye-rooms. In the back, among the old gaskets and engine blocks, the corpses are disemboweled, cleaned, embalmed and dressed for burial. Already our horses were stumbling over corpses as if in a quagmire. Tarzan had reached the doorway over the corpses of all that had stood to dispute his way, before Werper guessed at the reason for his immunity. The big Ravine and all the small nullahs are chock-a-block with corpses. Show More Sentences There will be demons, zombies, a Halloween party in a cemetery and reanimated corpses. You open the corpses, you go in and out of the house of the embalmer. Belgrade first knew of the battle by the corpses floating past her walls. It is just a sordid affair of mud, shell-holes, corpses, grime and filth. Down by his feet the gruesome mangled corpses were the size of children. The hunter turns faint, sick, as he contemplates this hecatomb of corpses. The eight corpses swung in their chains, a fetid, blackened, hideous, and indistinguishable mass. Seamen, you know, are superstitious on the subject of corpses. As soon as they heard it they set about their twofold labour, some to gather the corpses, and others to bring in wood. It was like a macabre march of struggling corpses towards a distant grave. It would have been an empty stage if it were not for a few corpses that lay thrown and twisted into fantastic shapes upon the sward. He believed for an instant that he was in the house of the dead, and he did not dare to move lest these corpses start up, squalling and squawking. A many, many, beautiful corpses she laid out, as nice and neat as waxwork. It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these creatures. The king, with a great host, went there, and there was desperate fighting during several days, and, as a result, all the plain around was paved with corpses and cast-iron. Murder and mayhem in Oxford CORPSES popping up all over Oxford, old feuds resurfacing and hussies trying to steal Robbie's broken heart. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with corpses What is the adjective for corpses? What is the noun for corpses? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words corpselike corpse corps corporis corporeity corporeally corpsing corpsman corpsmen corpulence corpulency corpulent 7-letter Words Starting With c co cor corp corps corpse