dungeon

Example Sentences

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Never mind that television’s bold step forward in infiltrating the secret lives of women arrived on the wings of a dungeons and dragons-fueled fantasy.

From Los Angeles Times

“There are dungeons here where human beings were kept,” she said.

From Washington Post

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