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morgue

[ US /ˈmɔɹɡ/ ]
[ UK /mˈɔːɡ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation

How To Use morgue In A Sentence

  • A monk will be hired to chant some Buddhist scriptures and perform a simple ceremony at the morgue instead of at a funeral parlor.
  • At the city morgue, workers nailed together coffins and put some of the dead in an ambulance to transport them to cemeteries.
  • It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.
  • The two bodies were transferred to the city morgue in Fairview around midday for post-mortem tests.
  • He was in charge of the clippings morgue at the newspaper.
  • And the morgue fills with the stench of the unforgotten dead.
  • The other is Mortuary, which presents the sanitary walls and gleaming metal surfaces of an unpeopled morgue.
  • He had to go to the morgue to ID the body.
  • Relatives of the dead headed to the city morgue for the grisly task of identifying their loved ones.
  • And many weapon, pharma, security, and oil guys getting their large cuts of the billions that Bush spends on the war weekly; while we the ordinary people only get weekly bodybags of our friends and loved from Iraq getting fedexed down the morgue here. Think Progress » Concerns over Iran bombing grow.
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