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Recent Examples of charnel
Flaherty’s descriptions of both the highs (rubies) and lows (charnel houses) of nonstop writing struck me as alien.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for charnel
Noun
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Acutis' tomb in Assisi—his body displayed in a wax replica and dressed in casual clothes and sneakers—has become a major pilgrimage site, and relics associated with him have toured internationally.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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His tomb is livestreamed 24/7 via a webcam.—
Ruth Sherlock,
NPR,
7 Sep. 2025
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He is buried in a crypt at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery in Justice, not far from his parents and two sisters.—
Christy Gutowski,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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Wine enthusiasts will appreciate Cas da Mata’s underground wine crypt, capable of storing up to 1,800 bottles.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
5 Aug. 2025
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Benchmark Provisions is a specialty-foods store that's located in the basement of a former bank, as evidenced by the massive stone walls that once held up the vault.—
Sheri Castle,
Southern Living,
31 Aug. 2025
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The federal government piled gold bars upon gold bars into this huge brand-new vault deep in the ground.—
Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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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.—
Al Haas,
Philly.com,
28 June 2018
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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.—
Joe Yudin,
Town & Country,
5 Oct. 2016
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The final nail in the coffin was hammered by Carroll, who sent a first-pitch 84 mph curveball from Slaten 375 feet to right field for a three-run homer.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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The coffin will then be taken by hearse to the Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore in Windsor.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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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.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2025
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That could produce a similar effect to the sarcophagus built around Chernobyl after the disaster in 1986, Bretton-Gordon said.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
20 June 2025
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“Charnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charnel. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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