charnel house
Example Sentences
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Technological "advances" had made it possible for governments to turn World War I into a merciless charnel house on a vast scale.
From Salon • Jul. 9, 2023
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
Its portrait of life as a charnel house may be half the story but in this case, it’s the only half.
From New York Times • May 7, 2021
On the other hand, in ignominious confusion, far down in this dark, dreary charnel house is tumbled all that now remains of the tyrants, the persecutors, the selfish men, under whom mankind have groaned.
From White Slavery in the Barbary States by Sumner, Charles
