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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
Pharaoh's tomb discovered by archaeologists in Egypt Dr. Josef Wegner, Penn Museum curator who is based in Philadelphia, recently uncovered a groundbreaking discovery: an unknown pharaoh's tomb, dating back 3,600 years.
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Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2025
Earlier Sunday, Leo celebrated a private Mass near the tomb of St. Peter.
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Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
11 May 2025
The injuries represented in the crypt are diverse, as are the diseases, which include dental conditions, joint conditions, and syphilis.
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Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
5 May 2025
The revelations come after a recent renovation prompted by a water leak in the crypt created an unexpected opportunity to perform a state-of-the-art scientific analysis on the corpse.
With her skills, Biles is the originator of the most difficult skills on three events: vault, beam, and floor.
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Caroline Price,
Forbes.com,
5 May 2025
As fans recall, Biles went to Paris to compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics with seven medals and returned with four more, including gold in the women's all-around and individual vault final.
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.
In 2022, following a criminal investigation, several objects were seized including a gold sarcophagus and five other antiquities from the Met, as well as the indictment of seven dealers, collectors, and curators such as the former president of the Musée du Louvre Jean-Luc Martinez.
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Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
28 Mar. 2025
Thankfully, today, other methods give us a better and more respectful look at what lies inside a sarcophagus.
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