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- adjective Resembling a
crypt
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Examples
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It is held in a cryptlike chapel that was once a wine cellar: rough stone walls, plank altar, candles, icon.
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It is held in a cryptlike chapel that was once a wine cellar: rough stone walls, plank altar, candles, icon.
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A few moments later the stair came out into a large cryptlike space with a dirt floor and arched stone roof.
Pendragon Before the War D. J. MacHale 2009
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A few moments later the stair came out into a large cryptlike space with a dirt floor and arched stone roof.
Pendragon Before the War D. J. MacHale 2009
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As nature increasingly rejects him, he finds himself withdrawing from it into the cryptlike confinement of a decaying castle.
Archive 2009-05-24 2009
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He felt the cryptlike heaviness behind him, and despite himself kept taking quick glances over his shoulder.
Mortal Remains Clement, Peter, M.D 2003
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All part of their punishment, he thought, more ghosts from the cryptlike rooms rising to stir his anger.
Mortal Remains Clement, Peter, M.D 2003
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Paul came at once and Hart swung the light of his torch into a dark cryptlike opening from the gallery.
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THE DUST OF HISTORY has long been gathering at Tehran’s cryptlike Martyrs’ Museum, where the collected artifacts and legendary tales of the Iran-Iraq War are bathed in sad, reflective music.1 I found the rooms devoid of visitors.
Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010
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