How to Use body bag in a Sentence

body bag

noun
  • The agents put his body in a black body bag.
    — Sarah El Deeb, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Many were in body bags, some wrapped in sheets and duct tape.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • There appeared to be a body bag in the street.
    — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Once in a while a body bag was passed, though none weighed much at all.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Once in a while a body bag was passed, though none weighed much at all.
    — Steve Buscemi, Time, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Men prepared the ground and prayed over bright-blue body bags.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Her limbs were found in black trash bags beneath the body bag.
    — Nathaniel Percy, Daily News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The bones were put in a small body bag and taken to the morgue.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Names were written on body bags lined up at the foot of a wall.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Its adjustable strap can be worn as a cross-body bag or a hip bag.
    — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Steps away, the body of a woman lay in a half-zipped black body bag.
    — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • One man is covered with a bloody white shroud inside a body bag.
    — Marin Scott, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
  • There would be eight body bags on the ground and no one would have a problem with it.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Images of a pickup truck bed stacked with full body bags haunt one nurse.
    — Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
  • His mother’s body is on a gurney, zipped up in a black vinyl body bag.
    — David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Firefighters doused the flames while body bags were placed in rows in the field.
    — Bloomberg.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • In another video, men prayed over a dozen body bags laid out on the ground.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
  • He was brought to a tent filled with body bags, including those of his son.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Placed inside a body bag, he was brought to his pregnant wife’s doorstep.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The corpses, wrapped in blue body bags, were buried Tuesday in a mass grave.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • How many American troops would come home in body bags?
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Rescue teams brought bodies out of the water in blue body bags.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 June 2025
  • Dozens of full body bags were lined up in the hospital parking lot.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2023
  • In search and rescue, a mission may require a body bag.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • If no body bag is available, cover the corpse with a blanket.
    — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Is piling up the other side’s body bags the best way forward?
    — Andrew Carey, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The body has been partially removed from a black body bag placed on dirt.
    — Marin Scott, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Not here, in this dusty field strewn with dead people wrapped in blankets and zipped up in body bags.
    — TIME, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The collection was peak street style, with cross body bags and neon accents.
    — Tatum Dooley, Teen Vogue, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Hayes, who narrowly missed the bombing, helped put the chief in a body bag.
    — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024

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