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Use cadaver in a sentence

Definition of cadaver:

  • (noun) the dead body of a human being

Sentence Examples:

It was lean and livid as a cadaver.

I dissected male and female ...eight or ten cadavers...over the years.

Still other cadavers poison the air and entice swarms of greedy crows.

Making dead languages optional was the last convulsive kick of the cadaver.

Their way was lighted by piles of cadavers writhing in gasoline flames.

And the vision of the cadaver, for an instant forgotten, reappeared before my eyes.

Through the interminable night he stretched prone on the floor, motionless as a cadaver.

In the naturally infected plague rats the rigidity of the fresh cadaver was pronounced.

The imaginary vision of the cadaver acquired such an intensity that, like one demented, I arose.

For what seemed to Mary an interminable time, the cadaver clung to the polished steel.

The time is near when the cadaver will have to be removed and the atmosphere purified.

Others, except for and sometimes in spite of their bandages, looked like horrid, partially decomposed cadavers.

Those who had come to bring aid to the besieged were turned into instant, filthy piles of cadavers.

He is handed a case to experiment on, just as a medical student is handed a cadaver to dissect.

We counted the charred cadavers of fifteen automobiles and twice as many dead horses during that ride.

It was part of some unidentifiable cadaver which he'd presumably brought with him for just such a use.

Now we rode past myriads of decaying cadavers and skeletons, which filled the air with an insufferable stench.

You should have seen him, musket on shoulder, holding by the tail the cadaver of a cat, bleeding and motionless!

To the uninitiated it is a place of gruesome smells and sights, for cadavers, whole or in fragments, litter the tables.

Hall is such a knotted creature I wonder my Susanna married him: such a sultry woman for such a cadaver!

The primitive brute always reappears, the right of the stronger to hold in its clutches the pale cadaver of justice!

In about five per cent of all cadavers we find ulcers in the stomach or else scars as traces of former ulceration.

He dissected a great number of animals and as many human cadavers as he could procure, the number, however, being small.

A distinctly original feature of the book is the illustrations, numbering about one thousand line drawings made especially under the author's personal supervision from actual apparatus, living models, and dissections on the cadaver.

Another method of attacking this problem consists in introducing blood from yellow fever patients or recent cadavers into various "culture media" for the purpose of cultivating any germ that might be present.

Any attempt to divide them theoretically reduces the social or political body to a cadaver, valuable for the study of structural anatomy after the method of Herbert Spencer, but throwing little light upon the vital processes.

He soon found himself in a corner of the park that had been transformed into a graveyard, near the cart of cadavers; there he had to shovel dirt on his own ground in company with the indignant prisoners.

His boldness and originality were exceptional, and his success was no doubt due in some degree to his constant practice throughout his life of performing every novel and important operation upon a cadaver before operating upon the living subject.

He had regained his strength, appetite, sleep, and color, after resembling a cadaver; but having returned to his bad habits, which were always followed by fits, he was found dead in his chamber one morning, bathed in blood.

He imagined her drowned, disappeared in the sea; he imagined his own emotion on seeing her disappear, and then the signs of grief that he would give in public, his attitude in front of the cadaver cast up by the waves.

They were unable to isolate this bacillus either from the blood during life or from the blood and organs of cadavers and therefore turned their attention to Finlay's theory of the propagation of yellow fever by means of the mosquito.

I know not why, but I seemed to be trusted by the Professor and his little band of students, and when cadavers arrived at the railroad station by express, I was often sent to watch them until they could be removed.

Now, not one of these writers would have treated a work on the science of geology as a collection of rules for making rocks; or a work on the science of anatomy as a collection of rules for making bones or for procuring cadavers.