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

Technological "advances" had made it possible for governments to turn World War I into a merciless charnel house on a vast scale.

From Salon

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

Above their heads: a charnel house of endangered trees.

From Scientific American

Television is a veritable charnel house containing the bones of characters who died unnecessary or stupid deaths.

From Salon