ossuary

How to use ossuary in a sentence

• The French cemetery at Notre Dame de Lorette has 20,000 named graves and an ossuary with 20,000 unknown dead.

  Geoff Dyer's 'The Missing of the Somme' Reconsidered | Louisa Thomas | November 11, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

• ossuary, os′ū-ar-i, n. a place where the bones of the dead are deposited: a charnel-house.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) | Various

• After a time the body is taken up, the bones cleaned, and deposited in an ossuary called the Quiogozon.

  A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians | H. C. Yarrow

• They are probably now in the catacombs of Paris, mingled with those of the thousands of unknown or paupers in that great ossuary.

  Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution | Alpheus Spring Packard

• I love to go to his ossuary of dead transactions, as I would visit the catacombs of Rome or Paris.

  The Poet at the Breakfast Table | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.