Golgotha

Example Sentences

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About 70% of Southern California’s cattle died, and so many of their skulls dotted the landscape for years afterward that an observer described it as a “veritable Golgotha.”

From Los Angeles Times

Sister Gabriel told me it was the wrists and ankles, because the nails would have torn through his hands and feet, sending his skin-and-bones human form spilling to the dirt atop Golgotha.

From Salon

But it also brings to mind a gallows hill and Golgotha.

From New York Times

Unusually for a Passion setting, “Golgotha” ends with the triumph of the Resurrection rather than the sorrow of the Crucifixion.

From New York Times

“Let good God care for the martyrs of Siberia, those tortured and murdered in the Golgotha of the east and those who had been deported and found a home under a foreign sky.”

From New York Times