charnel

Example Sentences

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The exigencies of mass death have left little other choice since Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake transformed the area into a charnel house of mangled bodies and crushed masonry.

From Los Angeles Times

Ukrainians who survive the charnel house are withered, their morale sapped by the constant explosions.

From Los Angeles Times

Scaled up to a necropolis, it could make the right impression, a modernist Hooverville of death in the shadow of our great national charnel house of inaction.

From Washington Post

Putin has turned Ukraine into a charnel house and his own Russia into a pariah state.

From Washington Post

That human shank was part of a colorful parade of body parts on display at this year’s Sundance, which included a veritable charnel house of severed limbs, decapitated heads and disemboweled guts.

From New York Times