body snatcher

NOUN
  1. someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
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How To Use body snatcher In A Sentence

  • Heavy slabs had been laid atop the ground over their coffins to discourage body snatchers.
  • It's like Dr. Bennel saying, "I didn't know the meaning of fear until I kissed Becky," in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, or Christoff saying, "Cue the sun," in The Truman Show. A Writer's Review
  • In times of dearth, body snatchers would try other sources: country churchyards further afield would be raided if they were on good communications routes - road, canal, or sea.
  • As Body Snatcher Harman is so keen on having our deceased grandparents dug up and 'compacted', David Cameron should ask her why she hasn't had HER grandparents' remains violated in this manner. Harriet Harman: Thank you, Thank you, Thank you
  • The most respectable men in London were present at the feast; there were nine cracksmen, five highwaymen, twelve pickpockets, two murderers, three gentlemen who had escaped from transportation, and a smart sprinkling of small workmen, in the way of _fogle hunters_, (handkerchief thieves,) and _body snatchers_, Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life
  • So now countless English not Welsh, or Scots, or Irish dead patriots are, on body snatcher Harman's orders, shamefully exhumed and 'compacted', i.e. dumped into a large grinding machine, where they are tumbled around and ground into pellets the size of rabbit droppings. Shaping Harriet Harman's Radical Realism to Face the Challenges of the Future...Blah...Blah
  • But how greatly is that understanding enhanced by the knowledge that, written and first filmed in the heyday of the Cold War, '' Body Snatchers is as much as anything about the great Communist takeover? Genre Fiction
  • The most respectable men in London were present at the feast; there were nine cracksmen, five highwaymen, twelve pickpockets, two murderers, three gentlemen who had escaped from transportation, and a smart sprinkling of small workmen, in the way of _fogle hunters_, (handkerchief thieves,) and _body snatchers_, Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life
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