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How to use charnel in a sentence

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A foul odor of decaying flesh permeated the air of this subterranean charnel chamber.
The dancing figures on the walls of the charnel house or the church were there to remind their audience that death was to be found everywhere.
Between them both sides lost half a million men and how many still lie buried in that charnel soil may never be known.
The elite were often buried in log-lined tombs within the charnel houses, accompanied by a selection of rich grave goods.
Long before those thirty seconds expired, however, the street had become a charnel house.
Undoubtedly the charnel features had many other meanings to the people who used them, ones that leave no archaeologically identifiable traces.
For the odours in these ghastly charnel houses there may be words in Lithuanian, but there are none in English.
The symbolic suitability of dark and dismal weather, however, is not the main reason Mary Shelley selected this particular month for the nativity of Victor's charnel creature.
The creation of a brand loyalty to a charnel encourages viewers to use the channel as a 'point of reference' for their viewing.
These charnel facilities consisted of a shallow limestone-lined pit, made from a single layer of horizontal slabs that were laid out on a prepared subsoil surface.
A charnel stench filled the air and made them recoil in disgust.
The burial rites involved placing the dead person in a charnel house made of wooden posts, burning it, and then constructing a mound over the top.
Without thought of where he was going, only knowing he had to get away, he ran off down the dirt driveway, away from the main road and the charnel house he had just vacated.
Körper is the first part of her triptych on this charnel envelope.
What they watch is a farce played out in a charnel house.
The place was a charnel house, of a macabre eeriness hard to describe.
In 1996, development of the cemetery grounds adjoining the former charnel house was completed with the construction of a ten-floor mausoleum, named in honour of Saint Marguerite d'Youville.
Examples from Classical Literature
A curious early fifteenth-century story is associated with this charnel house.
It was a charnel yard on the hill-side, near to one of the town's six gates.
Thy life has left thee, to live in the heart of a daughter of the charnel and the worm.
The bright world had become a place of skulls, a charnel house, a prison whose iron walls were closing in on him eternally.
The smell of the charnel house was driven away and the whole city was filled with the fumes of carbolic acid and lime in solution.
Some of these had been used as charnel houses, and had been filled with dead bodies.
The charnel houses of iniquity must ever be the workshops of the Salvationist.
The atmosphere of the place was cold and musty and suggestive of a charnel house.
From this charnel house let me to-night draw forth one of these.
The city will be a charnel house when these bodies start to decompose.
Yet that fragrant balm cannot stifle the smell of the charnel house.
Does not a ghastly air, a charnel breath, hover about us both?
It was a charnel house, half filled with dry skulls and bones.
It thrusts the girls into a charnel house of sin, sickness, and death.
Not in vain from the charnel have come to me the records I produce.
For the odors of these ghastly charnel houses there may be words in Lithuanian, but there are none in English.
His disordered mind interpreted the hall of the forest as a charnel place.
The entire surface of this metallic enclosure was rudely daubed in all the hideous and repulsive devices to which the charnel superstition of the monks has given rise.
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