5 sentences with 'corpses'
Example sentences and phrases with the word corpses and other words derived from it.
• « The Western Allies, primarily Britain and the United States, discovered the first evidence of the Holocaust when they liberated these German camps, uncovering tens of thousands of corpses and thousands of horribly malnourished survivors. »
• « Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander of the forces that had carried out the D-Day invasion, ordered British and American troops to document what they discovered - the huge piles of corpses, the open graves, the emaciated survivors and the gas chambers - so that these horrors would not be dismissed as "propaganda" at some point in the future. »
• « Every year an average of five or six corpses of unfortunate skiers and hikers who fell through the crevasses of the glacier 10, 20 or 30 years earlier turn up. »
• « The archaeologists were alerted to the fact that they found a common grave, circular in shape, with the corpses of young men between eighteen and twenty-five years of age who had evidently died in battle, judging by the signs of blows with swords and spears on their skulls. »
• « When he was arrested, 200 fresh corpses of one-year-old children were discovered in his castle. »