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charnel

noun

variants also charnel house

Definition of charnel

as in tomb

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Recent Examples of charnel Thousands of homes and a sprawl of entire neighborhoods were transformed into outdoor charnel houses. — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025 For the Himalayan monks of the early teen centuries, the ideal setting for initiation was a charnel ground, where people left their dead to be eaten by wild animals. — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for charnel

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Noun

According to the mission, Sekhentiu-Ptah’s tomb contained the remains of a funerary chapel with its false door still in its original position.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 31 Aug. 2026
In fact, 58 people were present when King Tut’s tomb was opened, and only eight died within 12 years.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of tomb

Noun

The Boulet Brothers descend on New York Comic Con to celebrate a decade of horror, filth, and glamour, and open the crypt on the show’s upcoming seventh season.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Aug. 2026
Call it the canary yellow uniforms in the coal mine — except the Red Sox have shot up the elevator shaft, bursting from their subterranean crypt.

— Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 July 2026

Definition of crypt

Noun

In the wake of Curry’s death, the Who Done It crew are begging Paramount to trawl its vaults and release the cut.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
In true Joycean fashion, Ironweed wants both symbolism and naturalism, the elevated language of heaven’s vaults alongside the unadorned details of bodily filth.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of vault

Noun

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
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

Definition of sepulchre

Noun

But the situation is far more tragic, with videos on social media showing dozens of coffins lined up beside mass graves, awaiting burial before the bodies decompose in the heat.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
Wails and moans of grief interspersed the chanting, until the small coffin was lowered into the grave.

— Victoria Davies, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of coffin

Noun

The same circle of dealers also sold artworks to the Metropolitan Museum, where the New York District Attorney’s Office seized five antiquities valued collectively at more than $3 million in 2022; those included a gold sarcophagus.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Inside, a replica King Tut sarcophagus stood against a cinderblock wall, looking out at a table and some chairs.

— Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

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