charnel house

Example Sentences

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Technological "advances" had made it possible for governments to turn World War I into a merciless charnel house on a vast scale.

From Salon • Jul. 9, 2023

Scaled up to a necropolis, it could make the right impression, a modernist Hooverville of death in the shadow of our great national charnel house of inaction.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2022

Above their heads: a charnel house of endangered trees.

From Scientific American • Dec. 15, 2021

I followed her out of the charnel house into a cold, heavy rain, spitting bile onto the pavement.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2020

I do not know the play, or even what the title is, But safe to make success a charnel house recital is!

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. by Various