ossuary

Example Sentences

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Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

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 • Apr. 16, 2024

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 • Nov. 12, 2022

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 • May 4, 2022

Our tombstones are direct descendants of the menhir and the obelisk, our altar-tombs of the dolmen, our family vault of the primeval cave ossuary.

From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)