How to Use morgue in a Sentence

morgue

noun
  • Death was rarely mentioned in the morgue.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • So there were many, many people in the morgue.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Less than a week ago, this arena felt like a morgue.
    — Tony Jones, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • The bones were put in a small body bag and taken to the morgue.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Rests on a dead body while hiding from the bad guys at the morgue.
    — Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 24 May 2017
  • Soldier Field felt like a morgue that night.
    — Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 6 May 2026
  • His body was found in the woods and identified in the morgue.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Workers at the morgue used puddles to clean their bloody hands.
    — Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Sergey was at the morgue to pick up the body of his baby brother.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • And those people sitting in the morgue, with no one to claim them?
    — Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Karl is visiting the morgue, alone, to claim the body of his wife.
    — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Overall, the weekend felt a bit like one long field trip to the morgue.
    — Matthew Scogin, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Just past the morgue is a room with four coolers that hold two bodies apiece.
    — Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2018
  • Around that time, a body was moved out of a local morgue, and a coffin was burned.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
  • But Kolia’s name wasn’t on the lists of bodies at the morgue.
    — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The bodies were stored in the truck due to overcrowding at morgues.
    — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
  • The family found their mother’s body in the city morgue the next day.
    — Megan Specia Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Maldonado’s name was on the list, his body at the city morgue.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • His friend Hasan is dragged to the morgue to identify him, and faints.
    — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The morgue was windowless, with just two low-wattage bulbs on the ceiling.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Doaa, however, spent that evening in the morgue with her husband.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The people gathered at this morgue just want answers, even in the form of a corpse.
    — Clarissa Ward, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The workers zipped the bags tight and hoisted them aloft, to be taken to the morgue.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Similar videos have emerged from morgues in other cities.
    — Hamid Kashani, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Weeks passed before her father found Ilya’s name on a list of the dead at the morgue.
    — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2022
  • So, the deputy coroner offered to take Steve's body to the morgue and run some tests.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • My feet were my feet in the morgue and my eyes were the eyes of my son looking at the feet of his father.
    — Literary Hub, 29 May 2026
  • In the midst of this, the Coroner calls to says that a dead man was brought into the morgue.
    — refinery29.com, 3 May 2018
  • The morgue that serves La Guaira is makeshift—a white tent on a dock lined with body bags and coffins.
    — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • And the episode ends with Knight delivering lunch to the morgue.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2022

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