dungeon
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The narrator is paranoid, weepy and violent, overwhelmed by visions of his own death, and the bass sounds as if it’s descending to a windowless dungeon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
At that point, it felt like a dungeon, the inner rooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
In “Twenty-Sided Tavern,” there are three core actors playing and acting out the game, one dungeon master and a sort of tavern keeper helping to keep score and track of the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
And somewhere deeper still, a dwarf is gently stirring hot pot in a dungeon, seasoning monsters like it’s the most natural thing in the world.
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
Just another lovely day in the dungeon of creation.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
She also prayed in a 17th Century chapel that was positioned directly above the dungeons.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It’s weird to be alive at a time when much of contemporary warfare comprises literal laser beams, flying robots and dungeons full of nerds at computer terminals, but that’s really what’s happening.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
If Link is puzzle-solving muscle, Zelda is conjurer, a solution-based thinker whose approach to monsters, dungeons and rifts that turn the world into fragments is equal parts patience, humor and, yes, action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
Harris descended into the dungeons of the facility, toured the cells where enslaved people were kept and walked through the so-called door of no return, choking back tears, her hand over her mouth.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023
When it quieted, he listened to the dripping, and the duller roar beneath his feet, where the waves were smashing against Breakwater’s huge stone arches and swirling through its dungeons.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
