Get to know Morgue better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like mortuary or building.
Morgue meaning
- A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
- A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
- The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
Using Morgue
- The main meaning on this page is: A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance. | A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts. | The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
- Useful related words include: mortuary, dead room, building, edifice.
- In the example corpus, morgue often appears in combinations such as: the morgue, hospital morgue, morgue of.
Context around Morgue
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Morgue
- In this selection, "morgue" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hospital, temporary, nearby, looks, amid and refusing stand out and add context to how "morgue" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a hospital morgue evokes a and a nearby morgue. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "morgue" sits close to words such as acm, alfredo and anatomical, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with morgue
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He told the court: “It was like a morgue. (9 words)
His corpse was later deposited in a morgue near the area. (11 words)
This also includes the elevator that leads out of the morgue. (11 words)
Based on accounts gathered by the Animal Kingdom Foundation (AKF), his owner’s family had attempted to bring Morgan home, but the dog seemed to have found solace in his vigil outside the morgue, refusing to leave the place where he last saw his owner. (45 words)
Saeed Al-Shorbaji, the supervisor of Nasser hospital's morgue, looks on as he works at the morgue, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 7, 2023. (40 words)
A father's quest for his sone made him hire an ambulance driver and drive 230 km to Balasore to find his son in morgue but realised that his hand was moving. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Saeed Al-Shorbaji, the supervisor of Nasser hospital's morgue, looks on as he works at the morgue, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 7, 2023.
Adebayo said the remains of the victims have been taken to the Badagry General Hospital morgue.
A father's quest for his sone made him hire an ambulance driver and drive 230 km to Balasore to find his son in morgue but realised that his hand was moving.
A few days earlier, a court in Tehran province sentenced a woman to spend a month cleaning corpses in a morgue after she was caught driving without a hijab.
Another temporary morgue, a 15 minute drive from Salisbury, Wiltshire, is based at a gritting yard.
Based on accounts gathered by the Animal Kingdom Foundation (AKF), his owner’s family had attempted to bring Morgan home, but the dog seemed to have found solace in his vigil outside the morgue, refusing to leave the place where he last saw his owner.
But the hospital said the morgue was overcrowded because of family members not collecting bodies in "a timely manner".
He told the court: “It was like a morgue.
His body has been transferred to the hospital’s morgue, awaiting a post-mortem examination.
His corpse was later deposited in a morgue near the area.
Nwabuzor stressed that the police stormed the house, arrested the suspect, and evacuated the body of the victim to Fugar General Hospital’s morgue, for preservation.
Perhaps it is the sleight-of-hand way this gruesome image of bodies placed on the floor of a hospital morgue evokes a cellphone snapshot of the peaceful slumber of children.
Relatives of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes mourn as they take a body from the morgue of An-Najjar hospital for a funeral ceremony in Rafah, Gaza, 11 November 2023.
The bodies of the deceased have been deposited at a nearby morgue.
The body of the neutralised suspects will be deposited at the morgue.
The charred remains of mother and son were later discovered among the rubble and removed to the morgue for post-mortem.
The siblings take a rickety elevator down to the morgue and are immediately greeted by Cozzerelli and his assistant.
This also includes the elevator that leads out of the morgue.
This leads her to abandon her current life and relationship to take a job at the local morgue which grants her access to the brains of corpses waiting to be autopsied.
Ukrainian military medics carry a body of their killed comrade into a morgue in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Jan.
Common combinations with morgue
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the morgue 51×
- hospital morgue 17×
- morgue of 10×
- morgue in 9×
- morgue for 8×
- in morgue 6×
- morgue and 6×
- city morgue 4×
- temporary morgue 3×
- morgue was 3×