Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for Tophet
Noun
  • It’s said that during the festival, the gates of hell open and ghosts visit earth.
    Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • That lends credence to the authors’ hypotheses that hell ants were widely distributed, as well as great travelers.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The documentary captures a sheriff’s deputy reminiscing about her car slowing in the middle of an inferno as her tires melted.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • In between those stretches, Minnesota was a blazing inferno, hitting 20 of 35 attempts from beyond the arc to blitz the Lakers in Game 1.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Appropriately for a fantasy of perdition suited to this nihilistic century, the logic of eternal punishment remains opaque.
    Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The perdition market did not respond to Newsweek's request for comment asking if an announcement like FanDuel's would follow.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Tophet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Tophet. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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