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
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
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
Truly, the body is full of impurity and its end is the charnel house, for it is impermanent and destined to be dissolved into its elements.
From The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus by Carus, Paul
