oubliette

Example Sentences

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Was the ghost seen admiring moats or pointing out that the oubliette needed a fresh coat of Sky Blue or what?

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2016

However, instead of banning players from Titanfall entirely for cheating, Respawn has chosen to build an oubliette, saying in an announcement:

From Forbes • Mar. 27, 2014

The I.R.A. promptly whisks Ned away to a mysterious Scandinavian oubliette, where he clings to sanity only by studying literature and philosophy and playing chess.

From Time Magazine Archive

I let myself have a brief fantasy of Prince Dain’s coronation, of me dancing with a grinning Locke while Cardan is dragged away and thrown in a dark oubliette.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Was it to be believed that he had lived all this time, buried in some oubliette at Tournebut, and could one expect that Mme. de Combray would reveal the secret of his retreat?

From The House of the Combrays by Le Notre, G., [pseud.]