charnel house
Example Sentences
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Scaled up to a necropolis, it could make the right impression, a modernist Hooverville of death in the shadow of our great national charnel house of inaction.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022
Above their heads: a charnel house of endangered trees.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 15, 2021
I followed her out of the charnel house into a cold, heavy rain, spitting bile onto the pavement.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2020
How and which stories about Black life rise to prominence in mainstream culture is a discussion that's been running for decades, but this charnel house of a year gave it new life.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2020
Though only a charnel house it is laid out with great care, in street, square, and alley, just like the abodes of men above.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by J. J. Smith
