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Example sentences for "morgue"

Lexicographically close words:
mores; morgage; morganatic; morgen; morgens; morgues; mori; morial; moribund; moribus
  1. At the West Dayton morgue frantic crowds all day and night watched every body brought in, hoping against hope it was not that of some loved one.

  2. A morgue was established on the west side of the city, and efforts to recover the bodies and aid the suffering were pushed as rapidly as conditions permitted.

  3. Patterson, stopped work in the morgue at his father's factory long enough to tell for the first time of the part he took in the rescue work.

  4. No, the Morgue does not give back what has been once deposited here.

  5. Then it is that the Morgue is recruited; two more days of glory and immortality in July, and the plague had been in Paris.

  6. When I heard of this, I captured that Jew office boy, ran him over to the morgue in a coupe, and he and I instantly recognized poor Mr. Clayton.

  7. Roar of elevated train, clang of street cars, hurrying dash of the ambulance, wild onward career of the fire engine, punctuated this human maelstrom sweeping toward its duplex outlets of the morgue or Sing Sing's gloomy prison cells.

  8. I have watched the morgue and all the police reports.

  9. It was well that the revolting sights of that dark, that horrid morgue were denied to many of the friends.

  10. In that dreadful morgue there were scenes which can never be described; God only knows what agony was in the hearts of many.

  11. That horrid morgue was dark and covered with gloom; the scene of the wreck was also covered with the evening shades.

  12. The keeper of the morgue was stationed to watch the sacred forms.

  13. Did you not testify that the morning after you had seen the patient choked into unconsciousness, you heard the nurse call up the morgue to inquire if the autopsy had been made?

  14. The colored planets and moons, the nebular masses and the cold, dead worlds lying in the silent morgue of eternity tell the wonderful story of cosmic grandeur.

  15. That's where he flashed the morgue pictures at you, Cal?

  16. This photograph, Callista supposed, would hardly go to the jury, for in the morgue nobody had bothered to toss a prudish towel over the innocent little triangle.

  17. Another watches the morgue and the hospitals.

  18. In this case it is too obvious that the first two sentences constitute the bare cable bulletin and that the second paragraph is the beginning of the morgue story.

  19. One must be careful in using the morgue write-up, however, to bridge naturally and easily the gap between the new and the old material, so that the reader shall not suspect he is reading a story partly written years ago.

  20. One of the chief duties of many exchange editors is to supply the morgue with material for its files.

  21. Have you ever been to the Morgue in Paris?

  22. There evidently was some trick, some strange mistake, about the Morgue and the burial.

  23. The man that was born when his wife lay before him in the Morgue has found another woman, a good woman who loves him and--" "And is married to her?

  24. You were found drowned and carried to the Morgue and properly identified--not by me, curse you, Lucile Laroche.

  25. Because I have just come from the Morgue where she lies dead.

  26. Should you wish to see the body before it is removed to the Morgue or otherwise disturbed, please hasten to Pier 48 E.

  27. There is a morgue near the left entrance to the cemetery and the stench of the ripe corpses is decidedly odoriferous.

  28. If Peggy were indeed lying there exposed to the careless, morbid glances of idle sightseers to whom the Morgue is one of the sights of Paris, he felt that he could not trust himself to go in and look at her.

  29. He stood still for a few moments, and then, as he was about to turn on his heel, he saw coming towards him from out of the door of the Morgue a figure which struck a note of tragedy in the bright morning sunshine.

  30. Many wounded and dead men, and women and children were brought up to the morgue and hospitals from the wrecked tenements that stood near the exploded mills.

  31. It was a picture in the morgue on the East River, with its half hundred corpses, waiting recognition or burial in the Potter's Field.

  32. On the way back from the morgue he looked in at the police station, but the babu had been gone some ten minutes when he arrived.

  33. Body's in the morgue in charge of the police.

  34. The risaldar-major went to the morgue to identify the body--drove through the bazaar, and possibly discovered some clue to the murderer.

  35. She was lying at the morgue this morning, stone dead, waiting to be identified.

  36. There was a drawn look to his face, and during the time that the dead girl lay at the morgue he seemed to be held by some terrible thought.

  37. I visited the morgue daily in hope of some clue, but none came.

  38. The tale of the unidentified girl at the Morgue recurred to him when he read the announcement that she would be buried two days later in the Potter's Field.

  39. He recalled the face at the morgue and vowed that such a girl could have done the sum mentally.

  40. It was as if the mysterious occupant of the Morgue had been born of the winter wind on that fateful evening two weeks before.

  41. Suppose one of your girls lay dead and unidentified in the morgue of a strange city and was about to be buried in the Potter's Field.

  42. He and one of his mates took the body by the arms and legs and carried it off to the morgue that had been extemporized behind the lilac bushes.

  43. Ask Fleet to have a morgue detail waiting when we get back to Luna Base.

  44. But as she had lately changed her name and address, she lay for a while in the morgue awaiting identification.

  45. He turned and swung out of the morgue into the sunlight.

  46. While the morgue chapel was still in a buzz of excitement, Dundee was dismissed, and District Attorney Sanderson requested an adjournment of the inquest for one week.

  47. Now, if that's all, Captain, I'll be getting this corpse into the morgue for an autopsy.

  48. The two men passed through the now deserted morgue chapel and almost bumped into a middle-aged man, obviously of the laboring class in spite of his slicked-up, Sunday appearance.

  49. Her body has been claimed by her friends;--it was at the Morgue to-day.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "morgue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrogance; disdain; hauteur; mortuary