We would die of starvation in this dingy dungeon-like cell. From Wordnik.com. [Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: McClelland)] Reference
Tricosas squinted and started down the serpentine, dungeon-like hallway. From Wordnik.com. [Black Friday]
Her voice was a near-whisper but took on an echo sound in this dungeon-like room. From Wordnik.com. [A STRANGER IS WATCHING] Reference
Toussaint suffered mercilessly in that cold dungeon-like prison, the Fort de Jour. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
Growing up in Michigan, I never knew of any place as reportedly dungeon-like as OPP. From Wordnik.com. [Stacy Parker Aab: When Jail is the Price of Freedom: A Reality Check, Courtesy of MLK] Reference
At its dungeon-like entrance, a despondent Asian man was plying a Boer War vacuum cleaner. From Wordnik.com. [The mission song]
We wound through narrow, dungeon-like passages with the cold, damp smell of an unused cellar. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
No matter how large the house it invariably has a dark dungeon-like kitchen and a closet for a bathroom. From Wordnik.com. [Go Sens!] Reference
Though the ancient architecture of Germany is altogether dungeon-like, yet they can make pretty imitations. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
Rofflash descended the uneven loose bricks of the narrow winding staircase into the dungeon-like apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
The poor lighting in my dungeon-like studio is impossible for photo taking without artificial light source. From Wordnik.com. [My first cake in school!] Reference
For Darkvision, I needed someone who practiced arcane magic, and for the Dungeons series, a suitably dungeon-like site. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
If the house is older than the 1940s, the basement — if there is one — may be windowless and dungeon-like, with no outside access. From Wordnik.com. [Suburb vs. Exurb] Reference
That night, returning to her dungeon-like apartment in Astoria, Ms. Brindel found a ray of light in the form of an e-mail from Mr. Forman. From Wordnik.com. [Countdown to Bliss] Reference
Earthquakes have played havoc with the buildings, but sufficient is left in the way of tunnels, grottoes, bathing ponds and dungeon-like rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java] Reference
Though his cell was darker and more dungeon-like, yet through the kindness of friends the sick young prisoner was made as comfortable as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Lewie Or, The Bended Twig] Reference
The dungeon-like atmosphere of Orbitz has somehow been scrubbed away. From Wordnik.com. [Charlottesville Blogs] Reference
He saw his captor rarely; the outside of his dungeon-like home, never. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
Houses are barred tightly, dungeon-like, to keep out the insidious dust. From Wordnik.com. [Louisiana.] Reference
The scanty furniture of the rooms corresponded with their dungeon-like aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Sheppard A Romance] Reference
Since it only locks from the outside, and it's kind of dungeon-like, and it's February. From Wordnik.com. [Maureen's Blog] Reference
Two were pulled from the dungeon-like conditions seen at the Pima Animal Control facility. From Wordnik.com. [Blog For Arizona] Reference
Those unable to manage the stairs can only access certain platforms via a dungeon-like tunnel. From Wordnik.com. Reference
By night the prisoners are herded together in hundreds from six to six in the wretched old dungeon-like rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference
The shopping in Sydney was a lot of fun, as we found a hole-in-the-wall puppet store, with four dungeon-like rooms. From Wordnik.com. [The Murverse] Reference
'People have been tied in chains and kept in dungeon-like situations like they used to do with lepers (in the past). From Wordnik.com. [India eNews] Reference
And if yonder dungeon-like door were to swing to and shut with a spring lock, she might perish there in the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference
It was a dungeon-like place, dimly lighted by three loop-holes about six inches square, and without furniture of any kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America] Reference
They were on the burnished copper railing refracting the thin light that danced back and forth across that dungeon-like chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Wires A Novel] Reference
Maria, at the close of evening, to stray along the narrow avenues that separated the dungeon-like apartments, leaning on her arm. From Wordnik.com. [Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
The darkness had now set in everywhere, and she argued that it would be foolish to venture into such dungeon-like places without a light. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Ghost Stories] Reference
A frantic white man stood at the low doorway of one of these dungeon-like stores hastening the movements of an unending string of porters. From Wordnik.com. [African Camp Fires] Reference
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