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
The show is part travelogue, part adventure quest with monsters, magic battles and dungeon exploration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025
The catacombs beneath a crumbling city have cracked wide open, revealing a vast, spiraling dungeon teeming with strange beasts and stranger plants.
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
Ludovico Sforza, the patron of the lavish Milanese Renaissance, would die, half-mad, in a French dungeon.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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
Missions include navigating dungeons, solving puzzles and taking on an array of enemies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
Mr Hamaguchi says the developers want the open world to work as "one single space" with "all of the towns, all of the dungeons and everything linked together seamlessly in one space".
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
Harris descended into the dungeons of the facility, toured the cells where enslaved people were kept and walked through the so-called door of no return, choking back tears, her hand over her mouth.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023
We watch as the scene on TV changes from the happy couple in the wildflower meadows and sunshine to the dark, dreary cellars in the castle’s dungeons.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
