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How to use the word deceased in a Sentence?

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Today marks the successful culmination of Mrs. Bryant’s courageous battle to hold accountable those who engaged in this grotesque conduct, she fought for her husband, her daughter, and all those in the community whose deceased family were treated with similar disrespect. We hope her victory at trial and this settlement will put an end to this practice.

Luis Li

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You have to think about the toll that this takes on your humanity, i really discourage it, because I don’t think that this really gives dignity to the person who is deceased.

Monnica Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because I know there’s probably victims in there and with the shots I heard, I know there’s probably somebody who’s going to be deceased. I know these were n’t.

Chief Pete Arredondo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Once I realized that was going on, my first thought is that we need to vacate. We have Uvalde Police Department/Reuters contained – and I know this is horrible and I know it’s [ what ] our training tells us to do but – we have Uvalde Police Department/Reuters contained, there’s probably going to be some deceased in there, but we do n’t need any more from out here.

Chief Pete Arredondo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are aware of the deaths of two Russian citizens. We are in touch with the relatives of these people and the police department of the city where it happened. We will provide the relatives of the deceased with all the necessary assistance in paperwork.

Calcutta Alexey Idamkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Unfortunately now that Myles Sanderson is deceased, we may never have an understanding of that motivation.

Police Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our thoughts are with the many victims deceased and injured, their family, friends and community. It is horrific what has occurred in our province today.

Rhonda Blackmore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All we know right now is that he's not in custody, and he's not deceased, sometimes these guys get away… Some want to do suicide by cop, some kill themselves, and some just don't want to get caught.

Mike Verden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In the Turks and Caicos Islands, as in the United Kingdom, it is customary and best practice for an inquest to be held either at the conclusion of a murder investigation, or where an investigation has exhausted all the avenues of inquiry or any related criminal court proceedings have concluded, otherwise, any police investigation or a fair criminal trial is in danger of being compromised by a premature inquest, thereby potentially denying justice for the deceased and their loved ones.

Trevor Botting

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Officers located a subject armed with a gun and engaged the subject, the subject was struck and officers provided first aid. The suspect was transported to the hospital and later pronounced deceased.

Duncanville Police Officer Michelle Arias

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We believe one of the law enforcement personnel discharged his weapon, and we believe at this particular time that the victim that is deceased is possibly due to the officer-involved shooting.

Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am addressing you on behalf of the people who honor the memory of the deceased every single day and in the memory of the civilians who died, who were shot and killed in the back of their head after being tortured.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The outcomes are dramatically better for the patient who receives a live donor kidney transplant than the one who receives a deceased donor kidney transplant.

Kent Kercher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We will not be releasing the names and numbers of those deceased as we work with the university to confirm and further the investigation at this time.

Public Safety Sgt. Steven Blanco

Found on CNN
2 years ago

On behalf of the Harris County Sheriff's Office, I want to extend our condolences to the family of the deceased female, and we're also praying for the full recovery of the two children that have been injured in this crash, as was mentioned, our deputy is said to be in stable condition and we're also praying that he makes a full recovery.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

First and foremost, on behalf of Harris County Sheriff Office I want to extend our condolences to the family of the deceased female and we are also praying for the full recovery of the two children that have been injured in this crash.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The preliminary investigation has revealed an adult male ran into traffic and jumped on a moving vehicle, the driver of the vehicle shot the male subject and notified 911. The male subject was pronounced deceased on scene.

Fayetteville Police Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That deceased woman in a shopping cart was covered only with a blanket. We believe this may be Anthony Eugene Robinson's fifth victim.

Forensics Ed O'Carroll

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There was a guy trapped under the house, but he was deceased after getting the house off the top of him.

Jasper Mundy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was at the scene when there were still children there that were deceased.

Jillian Peterson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is a sad legacy of wartime racism that some families may still not know that their deceased relatives once attended USC, and that they are now eligible to receive this belated honor. we can not go back and change what The University of Southern California did, but this is the least we can do to make right by some, some injustice is that we're done by the institution.

Patrick Auerbach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One of the things that bothered me is that I was the one that buried most of those people, most of the deceased, and it was like pulling the scab off of a wound.

Haywood Johnson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One was deceased and one was being taken into custody, either way it was heartbreaking because I wasn’t sure which one was my son.

Shayona Lewis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When the COVID virus came it was almost like it was inspirational to make that because there are so many family members – that were afraid to even come into the funeral home that wanted to see their deceased loved ones.

Howard Fields

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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