ossuary
Example Sentences
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Southern California has always been an ossuary of failed publications done in by apathetic readership, clueless owners or a combination of both.
From Los Angeles Times
But Southern California has always been an ossuary of failed publications done in by apathetic readership, clueless owners or a combination of both.
From Los Angeles Times
The layering suggests geological strata, or the arrangement of skulls in a medieval ossuary.
From New York Times
He was buried in a specially designed crypt in the cathedral which he commissioned that will be the resting place of all future archbishops after the remains of their predecessors are transferred to an ossuary.
From Seattle Times
One bone of contention for him — just one vertebra in an ossuary of contention, really — is that I have not made a pilgrimage to meet his new child.
From Washington Post
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