oubliette

How To Use oubliette In A Sentence

• But the oubliette alone will let you think while dying.
• I'm trapped in an oubliette, that's what this is, an oubliette for the mentally unstable.
• It was only then that Sabrina realized they were in an oubliette. CODE BREAKER
• They are like the French medieval penalty of the oubliette, where a man was put in a hole in the ground with bars over the top and forgotten.
• It was an oubliette for material that the owner of the business had been unable to sell to collectors or historians.
• The oubliette is a dirty place, and fuligin doesn't show bloodstains. The Shadow of the Torturer
• For a few hours, it meant an oubliette from whatever reality it is that everyone wanted me to face.
• He once said Bunny was all that stood between him and the oubliette. DOLL'S EYES
• Zlotin climbed back up on to the landing above the oubliette, then crouched down beside a wheel situated directly above the sluice-gate. CODE BREAKER
• That's why we have to have them - a societal oubliette.