Example Sentences

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It’s weird to be alive at a time when much of contemporary warfare comprises literal laser beams, flying robots and dungeons full of nerds at computer terminals, but that’s really what’s happening.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

Missions include navigating dungeons, solving puzzles and taking on an array of enemies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2025

In the book, Dr. Oxnam described how the personalities inhabited a vivid internal world — a castle with rooms, dungeons, walkways and a library behind iron-locked doors.

From New York Times • May 2, 2024

Mr Hamaguchi says the developers want the open world to work as "one single space" with "all of the towns, all of the dungeons and everything linked together seamlessly in one space".

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2023

She says it reminds her of dungeons, and must have been invented by someone strict and awful with an unlimited childcare budget.

From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead