How To Use charnel house In A Sentence
- The elite were often buried in log-lined tombs within the charnel houses, accompanied by a selection of rich grave goods.
- Each year we build a new addition to the charnel house of contemporary life. John Feffer: Pinker: Pollyanna of Peace?
- The poshest hotels and some of the most prominent watering holes for tourists and the rich became charnel houses in massacres that threatened to undermine India's astonishing economic growth.
- The place became a charnel house, and in the middle of the night the survivors fled forth, taking nothing with them except arms and ammunition and a heavy store of tinned foods. Page 5
- The land for the cemetery was originally leased from St Paul's Cathedral, which had used it as a dumping ground for bones being cleared from the charnel house and tiny burial ground around the church. Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status
- It was the mysterious, evil forest, a charnel house of silence, wherein naught moved save strange tiny birds -- the strangeness of them making the mystery more profound, for they flitted on noiseless wings, emitting neither song nor chirp, and they were mottled with morbid colours, having all the seeming of orchids, flying blossoms of sickness and decay. Chapter 25
- From behind the clan house came the cloying reek of the associated charnel house. Fire The Sky
- Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay, and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel houses. Chapter 4
- Out of the gloom emerge the later paintings, charnel house visions of desolation.