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
As Times critic Kenneth Turan put in his original review, the film is “both audacious and astonishing, a vision of a charnel house apocalypse that comes close to defying description.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2019
I smelled the charnel house upon that rusted frame; corruption was in the cage which inclosed me and in the air that I breathed.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
