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Recent Examples of charnel
Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma.
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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
The senseless charnel houses of Verdun and the Somme found their match in Bakhmut.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
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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
The senseless charnel houses of Verdun and the Somme found their match in Bakhmut.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for charnel
Noun
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The king later did public penance for this at Becket’s tomb in Canterbury.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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In 2022, for instance, Martinez and her team at the University of Santo Domingo discovered a 6.5-foot-tall, 4,300-foot-long tunnel some 40 feet beneath the temple while searching for the tomb.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Jan. 2025
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Read Next World Royal treasures hidden in cathedral crypt were lost for decades — until now.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Additionally, the candelabra will appear a third time, materializing in a cemetery crypt in the ride’s final act.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The documentary included both vault footage and interviews with more than 70 people.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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The 18-person dining room table and the back wall of the glass wine vault are carved from Patagonia-Brazilian onyx.—
Ray Parisi,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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But faithful members like Ivar and Sam can’t seem to let the coffin thing go.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
13 Feb. 2025
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When our gang hits the roundtable, Ciara wastes no time kicking things off by pushing back on the coffin theory.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2025
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In 1924: King Tut’s sarcophagus was uncovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter and his crew.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
The Arizona Republic,
3 Jan. 2025
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Continue reading … -- IN OTHER NEWS TIS THE SEASON – 'Santa Claus' sarcophagus believed to be discovered.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
16 Dec. 2024
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“Charnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charnel. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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