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
We are shut up as in a tomb, girt round With charnel scenes on every wall; Wherever echoes of town-traffic sound, Or human footsteps fall.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 by Various
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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