city of the dead
Example Sentences
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"It is painful when I go into the streets. The city looks like the city of the dead."
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
If Michael Jones was going to find his way in Hart Island’s city of the dead, it was clear he would need a guide.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 12, 2020
“The city of the dead is also the city of disorder and neglect,” the Afro-American reported in 1929.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2018
The new subterranean city of the dead is Israel’s most high-profile attempt yet to solve an unusual crisis: a shortage of places to bury to its dead.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2017
She set off down a shadowed path, wandering alone past obelisks, stone angels, and granite buildings in this city of the dead.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
