Thesaurus results for BELFRY

belfry

noun

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as in skull

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

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Recent Examples of belfry 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 Stop by the city’s Grosse Cloche belfry; its bell, named Armande-Louise, was cast in 1775 and still rings at noon on the first Sunday of each month and for special occasions. —

Jessica-Belle Greer, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2025 Firefighters prevented the flames from spreading to the church's northern belfry. —

Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024 The discovery of her body in a church belfry by janitor Frank Dixon led to the arrest and indictment of his 16-year-old son Lonnie Dixon, who was Black, on charges of rape and murder. —

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skull

Noun

He was tagged and pictured holding a skull on the group page, ABC 6 reported.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Investigators later searched the Ephrata home and storage unit of Jonathan Christ Gerlach, 34, and reported finding more than 100 human skulls, long bones, mummified hands and feet, two decomposing torsos and other skeletal items.

— Mark Scolforo, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026