charnel house
Example Sentences
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Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
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
Truly, the body is full of impurity and its end is the charnel house, for it is impermanent and destined to be dissolved into its elements.
From The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus by Carus, Paul
