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noun

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.

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How to use body bag in a sentence

The use of surgical masks, body bags, and other plastic-based protective equipment increased the amount of plastic in the ocean and in landfills.
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Social media is filled with images of body bags and urgent requests for medical aid.
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Twenty-year-old nursing students told me stories about zipping people up in body bags, six and seven a day.
Jane Birkin is back with a new album, but her presence is everlasting|Jeff Weiss|March 19, 2021|Washington Post
State officials dispatched refrigerated trucks and thousands of body bags to the region.
Dying on the Waitlist|by David Armstrong and Marshall Allen|February 18, 2021|ProPublica

“Everything he has said that he would do in those posts, short of executing and stacking up body bags, he has done,” she said.
Prosecutors want defense attorney, ex-Sacramento GOP leader charged in Capitol siege to remain detained|Rachel Weiner, Spencer Hsu|January 21, 2021|Washington Post
And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It jettisons jiggling ribbons of joy to every part of my body.
‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.
‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“I have to think her body type played a role,” said Rachel Greenblatt, a Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Harvard University.
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The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
The sad end of the mission to King M'Bongo has been narrated in the body of this work.
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The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
The generall mayne body of the planters are divided into Officers, Laborers, Farmors.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.

British Dictionary definitions for body bag

body bag

noun

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

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