How to Use cadaver in a Sentence

cadaver

noun
  • One of the cadaver dogs got a hit on the bathroom.
    — Kc Baker, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Radar is the cadaver dog who searched Dee's house.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • On land, cadaver dogs sniffed the shore for any trace of Lynette.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
  • Durst had once said the cadaver note could only have been written by her killer.
    — Brian Melley, ajc, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The well also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 6 May 2024
  • Some of the summer classes even work with cadavers brought in sealed and kept moist in a body bag.
    — Krista Torralva, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2018
  • The rescuers brought in cadaver dogs to scour the riverbanks.
    — azcentral, 15 May 2018
  • Two cadaver dogs were brought in to ensure no victims were trapped in the rubble.
    — Tara Law, Time, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The cadavers had been hacked into headless torsos and piles of limbs.
    — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • That day, three cadaver dogs reacted to something in the same area.
    — Emily Wichick Hourihane and Judy Rybak, CBS News, 10 May 2024
  • In fact, there are few state laws prohibiting the trade in whole cadavers or in non-transplant parts.
    — Author: Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Inside the trunk was a black cadaver bag covered with insects.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Earlier that day, the grounds had been cleared of the last cadavers, but the stench of death lingered.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The dead leg keeps up for a while, that is, until the ligaments and bones of the cadaver can no longer turn.
    — Brian_mossop, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2010
  • Cadavers lay unburied in a cemetery while those in the town focused on search and rescue.
    — Susan Abad and Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2017
  • Two cadaver dogs went to the scene, but there was no evidence that anyone was inside.
    — Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • That day, using more precise cell phone data and aided by cadaver dogs, the search was on.
    — Josh Gelman, CBS News, 12 May 2018
  • One of them was found overnight Friday during a search of the mobile home park with a cadaver dog.
    — New York Times, 21 May 2022
  • Since then, officials have deployed cadaver dogs and a mountaineer team in the hunt.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • The next morning, a cadaver dog was used to search for the couple's bodies at Sparks' home.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • One of the more intact cadavers appeared to be holding his arm up to his face as if trying to shield himself.
    — Photographs and Text By Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 6 May 2018
  • Burrows and her colleagues examined the eye muscles in the cadavers of six dogs and two wolves.
    — Jeremy Rehm, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
  • Police responded to the area with cadaver dogs and found the rest of the body Tuesday.
    — Fox News, 7 June 2018
  • And so in many cases what happens is, first, cadaver sniffing dogs are used to search the area to see if there's any trace of humans.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Drones and cadaver dogs helped locate the remains, the outlet noted.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • News that cadaver dogs did not definitively pick up any traces of Shaffer there or anywhere else around the bar.
    — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • News that cadaver dogs did not definitively pick up any traces of Shaffer there or anywhere else around the bar.
    — Alex Gurley, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • On Tuesday, state police used cadaver dogs to search the woods near Miya's home for the missing girl.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 14 June 2024
  • Detectives opened the front trunk of the car and saw a cadaver bag covered with insects, the documents say.
    — Kyung Lah, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Crews scoured the lake for weeks using divers, drones, sonar and cadaver K-9s, officials said.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024

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