dungeon

Example Sentences

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Tour guide Kwesi Blankson told reporters that the captives would sing songs and pray to the gods as they looked through the holes in the dungeon’s ceiling.

From Washington Post

After walking down a path where enslaved people once marched in chains to waiting ships, Vice President Kamala Harris entered a dungeon in Cape Coast, Ghana, where captive women had sung songs praying for death.

From New York Times

She laid flowers in the female slave dungeon and went through the so-called "Door of no Return" where slaves were shipped out.

From Reuters

Your opinion of it might depend on your opinion of spending a 3 a.m. in some dungeon of a bar sipping some sort of unregulated hooch.

From Washington Post

Toward the end of those years, the Viking and his closest lieutenants were cast into a lightless dungeon, yet nonetheless managed to break out, kidnap the emperor’s mistress and commandeer two galleys.

From Washington Post