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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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An inscription stated that Hatshepsut had the tomb's contents relocated due to flooding.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
28 Feb. 2025
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History and literature buffs will also want to visit Dante Alighieri’s tomb.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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In the crypt where St. Anthony was born, there is a contemporary tile panel illustrating a 1982 visit to the church by Pope John Paul II.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Be sure to bring along a copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Of Love and Demons for poolside reading—the illustrious crypt that inspired this spooky story is located right on the hotel grounds and Marquez’ house is just around the corner.—
Rachel Fletcher,
Architectural Digest,
20 Feb. 2025
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Ars' source likened it to holding the only key to the vault of NSF funding.—
Ashley Belanger,
Ars Technica,
5 Mar. 2025
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The depository has a strict no-visitors policy, as Trump alluded to, and even the president is restricted from accessing the vault.—
Emily Chang,
ABC News,
5 Mar. 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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Two small coffins return home, carrying the bodies of Israeli children who had barely begun to live.—
Laurence Bolotin,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Feb. 2025
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However, Francis has decided against this, choosing instead to have his body placed in a coffin in St. Peter's Basilica, where thousands will pay their respects.—
Amanda Castro,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Excavations at Herodium, the king’s lavish palace complex south of Jerusalem, revealed hundreds of red limestone fragments—perhaps pieces of the king’s sarcophagus.—
Ellen Wexler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 Jan. 2025
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In another crafty move, Focus Features is selling full-scale replicas of the sarcophagus for $20,000 a piece.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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“Charnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charnel. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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