body bag

noun

1. a large bag made of heavy material and used to transport a dead body, as from a battlefield to a place of burial or from the scene of a death to a city morgue.

body bag

noun

1. military a large heavy-duty plastic bag used to contain and transport human remains, esp those of battle casualties

Example Sentences

In Bogo city, the quake's epicentre, local media reports show body bags lined on the street in front of makeshift hospitals where the injured are being treated.

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We don’t face the spectacle of thousands of soldiers coming home in body bags.

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Every so often, a stretcher with a body bag was delivered – a victim found in the rubble.

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In the car park of the main hospital in Suweida city, dozens of decomposing corpses are lined up in white plastic body bags.

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According to investigators, Matevosian purchased a body bag from Amazon a week before the killing.

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