charnel

variants also charnel house

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Recent Examples of charnel Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024 Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, was burned nearly to the ground: a charnel house. Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 2023 Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, has been burned to the ground, a charnel house of mangled corpses. Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023 The senseless charnel houses of Verdun and the Somme found their match in Bakhmut. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023 See all Example Sentences for charnel 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charnel
Noun
  • In it, a small baby lies on a tomb of red velvet, her skin and dress a rocky gray (Eguiguren Arte de Hispanomérica, D10) and eye sockets blank, an icy contrast to the fresh roses and wildflowers with which she is adorned.
    Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • See them In a cathedral crypt, royal treasures that had been hidden and lost for decades were uncovered, revealing a trove of historical artifacts.
    Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
  • In 1931, a flood damaged the cathedral’s crypt, exposing the three rulers’ coffins.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Her husband Robert Sims (Common) leads her and their son to the vault, but the all-knowing voice says only Camille can stay—despite Sims’ endless dedication to the silo, he is not deemed the best person to be the next head of IT.
    Barry Levitt, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
  • While pulling off the diamond heist of a lifetime, Wilson and Nick become friends by breaking into the most secure vaults in Nice, France’s World Diamond district.
    Malik Peay, Essence, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Enclave, Buick’s large, three-row crossover, has been redesigned for 2018, allowing the automaker to finally place its predecessor in a sepulchre and seal the entrance.
    Al Haas, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
  • The Garden Tomb, is believed by many to be the garden and sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus.
    Joe Yudin, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
Noun
  • In the end, this deception will just be another nail in the coffin of legacy media.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • At one funeral in Ankara, the coffins of a family of five were lined up at the central Ahmet Hamdi Akseki mosque.
    Reuters, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Its lush grounds include a historic houseboat, shingled windmill and the thousand-year-old Chinese sarcophagus containing some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes.
    Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • That's where Joseph Keil found a skeleton in a sarcophagus filled with water, but for some reason, Keil only removed the cranium from the tomb before sealing it back up.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2025

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“Charnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charnel. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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