dungeon
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The narrator is paranoid, weepy and violent, overwhelmed by visions of his own death, and the bass sounds as if it’s descending to a windowless dungeon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
In response, the leader of Arioka orders Kanbei be thrown in the castle’s impeccably dingy dungeon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
At that point, it felt like a dungeon, the inner rooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
The dungeon is full of weird, pulsing, half-sentient creatures — more slime than steak.
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
He seized his dragon-skin briefcase, stuffed his handkerchief back into his pocket, and marched to the dungeon door.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
She also prayed in a 17th Century chapel that was positioned directly above the dungeons.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It’s weird to be alive at a time when much of contemporary warfare comprises literal laser beams, flying robots and dungeons full of nerds at computer terminals, but that’s really what’s happening.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
If Link is puzzle-solving muscle, Zelda is conjurer, a solution-based thinker whose approach to monsters, dungeons and rifts that turn the world into fragments is equal parts patience, humor and, yes, action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
In the book, Dr. Oxnam described how the personalities inhabited a vivid internal world — a castle with rooms, dungeons, walkways and a library behind iron-locked doors.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
He did not know how long he had been down there in the dungeons, but it had to have been half a year at least.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
