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Meanings of morgues in English
Place for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification or burial.
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Examples for "morgue"
Examples for "morgue"
1
Meanwhile, families have gathered outside the local morgue to identify the victims.
2
I have thought about this on the way home from the morgue.
3
That morning, she went to the city morgue to identify his body.
4
I need you to come to the morgue to identify the body-
5
He went home after the morgue and he's coming back at six.
1
For some reason, I could envision the mortuary home in radiant detail.
2
Neither Lawson nor the mortuary was immediately available for comment on Saturday.
3
As an undertaking family, the mortuary became an extension of our home.
4
After lying in the mortuary for eleven days the body was buried.
5
The corpses had been taken to the mortuary of the town hospital.
1
Daddy never called them 'mortuaries.' He said that was way too impersonal.
2
Hospitals have altered their mortuaries to ensure they facilitate modern design needs.
3
Especially when the customary period had already been pre-agreed with the mortuaries.
4
But where mortuaries have customarily been less, they shall remain the same.
5
Thank God refrigeration was available at the collection points and at the mortuaries.
Usage of morgues in English
1
Children are often in the crossfire, sent to hospitals or to morgues.
2
Hospital staff said there were still bodies arriving at morgues in Kano.
3
Army tanks and armored vehicles joined police patrolling near hospitals and morgues.
4
I kept being told, nobody wants to read about laboratories or morgues.
5
They say morgues are full beyond capacity and have ordered immediate cremations.
6
Funeral homes are only authorized to transport bodies from morgues to cemeteries.
7
As quickly as bodies were found they were taken to temporary morgues.
8
Scores turned up in Egypt's morgues, shot or bearing signs of torture.
9
Hospitals were overwhelmed and makeshift morgues were built outside health facilities.
10
Weeping relatives in hospitals and morgues heaped criticism on the deeply unpopular government.
11
Seamen tell of what they see: their reports are interred in scientific morgues.
12
The airline passengers, they went to morgues in all five boroughs?
13
But I know how you feel; I 'm just that queer about morgues.
14
For a time the street was lined with trucks operating as makeshift morgues.
15
State newspaper al-Ahram said 36 bodies had arrived at hospital morgues in Alexandria province.
16
Hospitals and morgues struggled to cope with injured and bewildered victims and bloated corpses.
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