charnel house
Example Sentences
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Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
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
Television is a veritable charnel house containing the bones of characters who died unnecessary or stupid deaths.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2021
Above their heads: a charnel house of endangered trees.
From Scientific American • Dec. 15, 2021
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
