How to Use charnel in a Sentence

charnel

noun

• What lay on the pillow was a charnel-house, a heap of pus and blood, a shovelful of putrid flesh.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• In the vicarage garden, the bodies in the charnel mound have gone back to sleep.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
• Museum collections may look like a creepy charnel house to outsiders, full of corpses, pins, and mothballs.
  — Gwen Pearson, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2015
• Though cremation has since solved the burial space issue, Hallstatt townspeople can choose to send their remains to the charnel house.
  — Danielle Page, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019
• For all the talk of internationalist duty, the Afghanistan that the Soviets left behind was a charnel ground.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• Isotope dating studies of the bodies in the vicarage charnel mound found wide disparities.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
• Down the row, past the typical stacks of bones and skulls found in charnel houses, the body of a woman was so well preserved that her nose still protruded outward from her face, some three hundred years after her death.
  — Caitlin Doughty, Time, 4 Oct. 2017
• An honorable soldier, Lee is an apt symbol for the Confederate rank and file whose sacrifices in the war’s charnel house shouldn’t be flushed down the memory hole.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
• If Dickens’s body of work is a virtual charnel house, Jane Austen is famous for never killing off a single major character.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2020
• Blood and wreckage was distributed over the entire ship, the after cabin and the vicinity of the ship adjacent to the exploded boiler resembling a charnel house.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2019
• There’s a reason Buddhist monks meditate on charnel grounds, and why Cicero said the contemplation of death was the beginning of philosophy.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 26 June 2018
• Many of those felled in the drug war are expected to meet the same ending as generations of impoverished Filipinos before: stuffed in rice sacks and stored in charnel houses or dumped in piles, mixed with rubble and gravel on the cemetery floor.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
• Similar charnel houses were created in Catholic cemeteries all across Europe.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 Sep. 2017
• Connecting the Alps and the Adriatic, this hiking trail showcases the heritage of the Isonzo Front, including fortifications, military cemeteries and charnel houses, alongside the region’s stunning natural scenery.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024