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Recent Examples of charnelFlaherty’s descriptions of both the highs (rubies) and lows (charnel houses) of nonstop writing struck me as alien.—Molly Young, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024 His third-floor office, in a dingy concrete building across a roaring four-lane road from the Ikeja market, is a charnel house of dead mobile phones.—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for charnel
With 2,000-year-old ancient Roman roads and Etruscan tombs, grand villas, papal palaces, charming medieval towns, rolling countryside, and unforgettable food and wine, Lazio has something for every traveler.
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Fulvio De Bonis,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Oct. 2025
Khentika's tomb is a mastaba, one of the few in Egypt to have a curse inscribed on its facade.
In Saunders’s afterlife, various spirits join Willie, Lincoln’s eleven-year-old son who has died from typhoid fever, while his father grieves in the crypt.
Skinner, who won silver in vault at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, spoke up about the issue earlier this year, and is now taking a harder stance.
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Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025
Fire crews who arrived at the scene found that the worker had been pinned from the waist down by a burial vault — which is believed to have fallen on the individual.
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.
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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.
Cerussi and Donovan put the nail in the coffin with five seconds remaining in the first half by connecting for the second time for 34 yards to essentially finish things off with a dominating 34-7 halftime lead.
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Brian Fabry,
Boston Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
Israel has received a coffin carrying the body of a deceased hostage, the prime minister’s office said in a statement late Friday.
Solomon peppers his story with generational resentments and art-world posturing, while Soderbergh films the interiors of McKellen’s English townhouse like the inner workings of a sarcophagus.
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
8 Sep. 2025
Archaeologists were unsure of what the entire scene depicted until the sarcophagus was handed over to the IAA's conservation team — who assembled the fragments.
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