dungeon
Example Sentences
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The catacombs beneath a crumbling city have cracked wide open, revealing a vast, spiraling dungeon teeming with strange beasts and stranger plants.
From Salon • May 12, 2025
The guard buzzed us through a solid steel gate to give us entry to the main hallway, with the dungeon located at the end.
From Slate • Oct. 20, 2024
Not another cooking game, but instead a new take on a dungeon crawler where you can team up with your friends to survive in a twisted reality show competition.
From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024
When Supergiant Games was wrapping up Hades, a mythologically rich hack-and-slash dungeon crawler it had spent more than three years developing, the studio concluded it was not quite done.
From New York Times • May 13, 2024
“A cowshed. How unimaginative. I really would have expected Capricorn to at least have a proper dungeon for his prisoners.”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.