Thesaurus results for BELFRIES

belfry

noun

Definition of belfry next

as in skull

a person's mental ability The old codger has cobwebs in the belfry.

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Recent Examples of belfry The Jokake Inn closed in the late 1970s and was demolished, except for its Pueblo revival-style belfry towers, which were incorporated into The Phoenician. —

Douglas C. Towne, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025 Lights and stones can be seen falling from the church before the belfry plummets to the ground, smashing into the concrete below. —

Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 1 Oct. 2025 Meanwhile, at dawn, fog spills through the Mirna River Valley like milk across a tabletop, leaving only the belfry piercing the haze. —

Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 They were cleaned, polished and rehung in their belfries during a ceremony last month, their sounds resonating over Maaloula for the first time in 13 years. —

Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for belfry

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skull

Noun

While building the institution, architects discovered that buried under it was one of the largest and best preserved tzompantli, or wooden rack, displaying over 650 human skulls thought to have been sacrificed in the 15th century, during Aztec rule.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026
The boy suffered several injuries, including a concussion, skull fracture, broken wrist and fractured femur, prosecutors said.

— Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 8 May 2026