charnel
Example Sentences
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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
As Times critic Kenneth Turan put in his original review, the film is “both audacious and astonishing, a vision of a charnel house apocalypse that comes close to defying description.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
The camp soon became a charnel house, for Congress failed to supply the necessary food and clothing, and sickness inevitably resulted.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
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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