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Recent Examples of charnelHis 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 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 See All Example Sentences for charnel
This is the third tomb found at Caracol that dates back to around A.D. 350.
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Kerry Breen
July 10,
CBS News,
10 July 2025
Discovered in 1902, his bones were sealed inside a ceramic vessel placed in a rock-cut tomb in Nuwayrat, an archaeological site located about 170 miles south of Cairo.
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Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2025
Officers found a gravesite dug open, along with the crypt and casket broken open.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
3 July 2025
Ticket Information Brompton Cemetery Catacombs Hidden beneath one of London’s most atmospheric Victorian cemeteries lie the Brompton Catacombs — a shadowy underworld of vaulted chambers and crypts.
Another was recovered from a garbage heap outside RKO’s old prop vault and sold at a 1982 Sotheby’s auction, where Steven Spielberg bought it for $60,500.
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Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 July 2025
Deep in an underground, World War Two-era vault, investment manager Louis O'Connor guards his firm's most valuable assets.
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.
After the events of The Dark Ages in the dimension of the Argenta and fighting his way into Hell, the demons somehow managed to trap the Doom Slayer in a sarcophagus for an unspecified (but very long) time.
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Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
28 Mar. 2025
Regal Cinemas sees your collectible popcorn buckets and raises them with a collectible popcorn sarcophagus.
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James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Nov. 2024
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