MORTUARY in a Sentence

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And the four friends quit the room, leaving to Planchet and Fourreau the duty of paying mortuary honors to Brisemont.

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 Meanings and Examples of MORTUARY
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mortuary
 n.  a place, especially a funeral home, where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
Classic Sentence:
1  Yes, yes, the mortuary deposition.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28. The Prison Register.
2  Franz and the count descended these, and found themselves in a mortuary chamber.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.
3  "You can take him to the mortuary now," he said.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  You shall see the body at the mortuary, but we have made nothing of it up to now.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
5  The undertaker, true to his craft, had made the best display he could of his goods, and there was a mortuary air about the place that lowered our spirits at once.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  And the four friends quit the room, leaving to Planchet and Fourreau the duty of paying mortuary honors to Brisemont.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 42 THE ANJOU WINE
Example Sentence:
1  Reports from Iraq this June showed that Baghdad's main mortuary had already received the bodies of more than 6,000 people since that start of 2006.