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
The atmosphere of the place was cold and musty and suggestive of a charnel house.
From The Opal Serpent by Fergus Hume
