charnel

How To Use charnel In A Sentence

• It was grey with pain, already almost a death mask and beginning to melt invisibly into the charnel of the killing field. WALL GAMES
• It is argued, based on archaeological and ethnohistoric data, that the layout of the mound, burials, and charnel features is patterned after Native American notions of the cosmos.
• 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.
• First, the cave is frequented by wild beasts, who make it a kind of charnel-house. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
• 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