charnel
Example Sentences
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He’s one reason “The Charnel House” is watchable, even if you can tell very soon what’s really going on behind mysterious doings.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2016
Movie review of “The Charnel House”: This predictable but polished horror potboiler has an interesting take on the doppelgänger theme.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2016
"Even a casserole can scream!" he said of The Charnel House.
From The Guardian • May 7, 2010
The Charnel House is the offensive and defensive weapon deployed: memento mori, indictment, tribute to sacrifice, howl of despair, and proof positive of lyric poetry after Auschwitz.
From The Guardian • May 7, 2010
In an enclosure east of this stood the College of Minor Canons; and at Canon Alley, east, was a burial chapel called the Charnel, from whence Somerset sent cart-loads of bones to Finsbury Fields.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
Vocabulary lists containing charnel
"The Pit and the Pendulum," Vocabulary from the short story
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 4
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Body Language: Carn ("Flesh")
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