How to Use mortician in a Sentence

mortician

noun
  • There is the slightest smile on his face, not forced or fixed by morticians.
    — Longreads, 7 June 2018
  • The morticians haven’t made him up but just brushed his hair and drawn a blanket to his throat.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Katie Holmes is a delight as a fed-up mortician’s wife more than ready to fly the coop.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 8 May 2025
  • The study showed that morticians laugh more than persons under 20.
    — Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Gloria and her son go to visit a mortician about her stepfather’s death.
    — Zane Moses, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The mortician’s work had turned Mary, so vivacious in life, into a stranger.
    — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
  • The overwhelmed health care workers and morticians, and the many citizens who rose to the moment.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Mitchell worked as a mortician at a funeral home in the Tidewater area.
    — Steve Lyttle, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Afterward, morticians rebuilt the body with sticks and animal hair, and covered it in white ash.
    — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2016
  • At one point in the evening, after the topic of the Haitian mortician came up, Lemigova stood up and grabbed the mic.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • What is the most challenging aspect of your work as a funeral home director and mortician?
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
  • While other families were prepping their turkeys, a mortician was prepping his body.
    — Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The morticians of the Middle Ages pick up bodies to place on a wheelbarrow in the midst of a pestilence.
    — David Plazas, The Tennessean, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Sands said morticians in Abaco have been embalming remains because crews have run out of coolers.
    — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The mortician explained that a full body burial at sea is a bit more complicated than simply heaving a corpse overboard.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Also seen on-screen are gerontologists, morticians and prophets of eternal living through chemistry (see a few of them in the gallery above).
    — Matthew Shechmeister, WIRED, 7 July 2011
  • The film follows a reclusive mortician who faces an unusual request from a dissident singer in hiding.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Tilda Swinton is, well, remarkable as a mortician with a talent for martial arts.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2019
  • The film will also see the return of Tony Todd as mortician William Bludworth.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Morticians completed the process by shoving hot coals into the trunk cavity to dry the cadaver.
    — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2016
  • There was the time an elderly neighbor died, and Holley carefully prepared her body for the mortician.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • The 97-year-old mortician was the first -- and one of the oldest Texans -- to die from the disease caused by coronavirus.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
  • To retrieve this newer style of pacemaker, on the other hand, the mortician must open the chest and make an incision into the heart itself.
    — Melissa Jayne Kinsey, Slate Magazine, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The great Clancy Brown stars as a creepy mortician who shares the scariest stories that he’s ever heard with a young woman who comes to his door.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 11 June 2024
  • The film would find its connection to Clive Barker with the casting of Tony Todd as a mortician.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 May 2025
  • As a mortician, Miranda believes that viewing the body is of the utmost importance.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 29 July 2021
  • In her third book, Los Angeles mortician Doughty answers questions about death from young people who don’t hold back.
    — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Years before her death last summer at the age of 85, Lois Woodburn cornered a mortician at a party to ask if she could be buried in the ocean.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Some worse than others considering Joe Philbin came off more as a mortician than NFL head coach.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Now, years later, Hollis works at the funeral home as a mortician and is preparing to take over as director once her father retires.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025

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