charnel

Example Sentences

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That human shank was part of a colorful parade of body parts on display at this year’s Sundance, which included a veritable charnel house of severed limbs, decapitated heads and disemboweled guts.

From New York Times

Above their heads: a charnel house of endangered trees.

From Scientific American

Television is a veritable charnel house containing the bones of characters who died unnecessary or stupid deaths.

From Salon

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

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