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charnel

[chahr-nl] / ˈtʃɑr nl /






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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

Trying to reach gold buried off the road, he had hit a cemetery for prisoners with his bulldozer and got stuck in the charnel for five days.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2020

By the Doctor's directions, he, with some reluctance, assisted Kelley to raise the corpse, and convey it to the charnel.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison




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