Sentences with body
bod·y
B b - The sun, moon, planets, stars, etc. are celestial bodies
- A body of land or water
- Body refers to the whole physical substance of a person or animal, whether dead or alive; , corpse and the euphemistic , remains refer to a dead human body; , carcass is used of the dead body of an animal or, contemptuously, of a human being; , cadaver refers primarily to a dead human body used for medical dissection
- The largest organ in the body is the liver.
- Lying flat on the floor, twist your body on to one hip and cross your upper leg over your body.
- Officials said they had found no traces of violence on the body of the politician.
- ...the Chairman of the policemen's representative body, the Police Federation.
- ...that large body of people which teaches other people how to teach. [+ of]
- The main body of the church had been turned into a massive television studio. [+ of]
- The only shade was under the body of the plane. [+ of]
- It is probably the most polluted body of water in the world. [+ of]
- An increasing body of evidence suggests that all of us have cancer cells in our bodies at times during our lives. [+ of]
- ...a dry wine with good body.
- body odour
- While we are still in the body
- The body of a vehicle
- The body of public opinion
- The body of a thesis as opposed to the footnotes
- The student body
- A Burgundy has a heavy body
- The body text
- A body of soldiers, an advisory body
- She's a quiet sort of body.
- Student body; corporate body.
- This wine has good body. Wool has more body than rayon.
- We left the party in a body.
- Few writers can make enough to keep body and soul together without another occupation.
- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light. The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace. Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder. Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it [. . . ]
- The boxer took a blow to the body. The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape. Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress. In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
- I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards. The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track. We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- All bodies are held together by internal forces. The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded. The red wine, sadly, lacked body. In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour [. . . ]
- A nonpareil face on an agate body
- The body of a tree.
- The body of the American people favors the president's policy.