charnel
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
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
Kelley then unlocked the door of the charnel, and brought out a pickaxe and mattock.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
