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
Its portrait of life as a charnel house may be half the story but in this case, it’s the only half.
From New York Times • May 7, 2021
There is not much of interest left in the church, but in one corner is a small, dark, stone-roofed charnel house, still heaped high with the whitened skulls of the monks who were entombed there.
From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
