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Meanings of charnel in English
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Examples for "ghastly"
Examples for "ghastly"
1
Of all the units operating in that ghastly Sector, the 17th H.L.I.
2
IRAQ: Somewhere in Iraq a grim and ghastly auction is taking place.
3
The ferocious purpose in the black eyes faded to a ghastly terror.
4
The Sermon on the Mount makes the morality of the nations ghastly.
5
The sand was stained with brownish blood patches; the wounds were ghastly.
1
At length in a low sepulchral voice She pronounced the following words:
2
And she made the remark in an almost sepulchral tone of warning.
3
When I did I found the house dark and the silence sepulchral.
4
The rest of his sepulchral performances hardly deserve the notice of criticism.
5
Such was the fate of the seven occupants of this sepulchral chamber.
Usage of charnel in English
1
Caverns used by the natives as charnel-houses in the Isle of Pines.
2
Meridor was a part of the system that ran that charnel house.
3
The hospitals had become ghastly charnel houses; starvation was at its worst.
4
What they watch is a farce played out in a charnel house.
5
Yet that fragrant balm cannot stifle the smell of the charnel house.
6
The sullen guardians of these twelve charnel-houses knew nothing of individual prisoners.
7
His ghost stalked through the Empire, converting it into one vast charnel-house.
8
It was a charnel house, half filled with dry skulls and bones.
9
The militia were pinned by gunshot, and the charnel golem reached them.
10
Cherry, Water, and the neighboring streets, are little better than charnel houses.
11
The flowers that adorn his poetry bloom over charnel-houses and the grave!
12
And then, as a wind from a charnel, was heard its voice.
13
Who exhumed you, patron saint of archaism, from the charnel-house of centuries?
14
Does not a ghastly air, a charnel breath, hover about us both?
15
A mound on the right near the charnel house still looked quite fresh.
16
The Lord's charnel house smithy was nothing more than reasonable caution these days.
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Charnel through the time
Charnel across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common