charnel
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
The consignment of Vietnamese civilian war wounded to provincial hospitals that were little better than charnel houses has been a national scandal for the United States.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
From this charnel house let me to-night draw forth one of these.
From White Slavery in the Barbary States by Sumner, Charles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
