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How to use dungeon in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Dungeon means an underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle. Example: “The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon.”

Examples of dungeon by meaning

nounAn underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.

  • Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon.1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
  • They could still hear him for some time shouting out things about having the law of them while being bounced down to the deepest dungeon of the castle.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 84

More sentences with dungeon

  • The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon.From the entry shut up
  • The dungeon fern has a passive attack that releases spores.From the entry passive attack
  • Sure enough, the text also teases the return of the weapon in an upcoming dungeon.2024 September 9, Tim Clark, “[Destiny 2 is abandoning big annual expansions and linear campaigns in favour of more frequent releases that…. From the entry play
  • There's also the Shattered Throne dungeon, which has essentially been powercrept out of providing any meaningful challenge.2024 April 16, Phil Savage, “As Destiny 2 enters its latest 'We're so back' era, you can grab all of its expansions for $45 in the Steam…. From the entry powercreep
  • Dungeon rap is a new hybrid style of hip-hop created by Yatsun.2023 July 12, Daniel Dylan Wray, “‘I don’t believe in the idea of a future’: the Ukrainian producer who invented dungeon rap”, in The…. From the entry Memphis rap
  • It takes a lot of work to be a dungeon master.2021 July 9, Luke Winkie, How a professional dungeon master keeps his games fun. From the entry labor of love
  • Tsia Mountain, which contained our dungeon, was within the Empire’s territory.2019, Supana Onikage, translated by Quof, edited by K. “Kitty-tama” Jordan, Lazy Dungeon Master, volume 5, J-Novel Club, →ISBN. From the entry Hokkaido
  • Not to mention that there’s dozens of dungeons marked on the map.2019, Supana Onikage, translated by Quof, edited by K. “Kitty-tama” Jordan, Lazy Dungeon Master, volume 5, J-Novel Club, →ISBN. From the entry Hokkaido
  • In the dungeons, Cersei kisses Tyene Sand with poison on her lips.2017 July 30, Ali Barthwell, “Ice and fire finally meet in a front-loaded episode of Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry chain up
  • For many fans of the dungeon crawler genre, the ultimate risk is permadeath.2015 April 4, Laura Hardgrave, “Darkest Dungeon and Permanent Death in Video Games”, in Den of Geek. From the entry permadeath
  • Though Bateman wanted the dungeon master to awaken and know his pain, he hadn’t.2015, Brad A. Braddock, Jason Pacy, “The Black Tree in the South Forest”, in The Village of Eben Hollow, United States: Black Rose…. From the entry dungeon master
  • He came to the dungeon for pup play, a common fetish.2015, Lux Alani, “On Authenticity”, in The Little Vanilla Book, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2. From the entry puppyplay
  • It was down to this dungeon that the High Priestess’ guards dragged me.2012, Mary Lynne Gibbs, chapter 12, in Jericho Rising (The Jericho Cycle; 1), Ferndale, Mich.: Dragon’s Roost Press, published 2016…. From the entry dungeon mistress
  • The dungeon master would suspend his handcuffed victim from that horizontal bar.2010, Jasmine Haynes, “Surrender to Me”, in Hers for the Evening, New York, N.Y.: Heat/Berkley Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 271. From the entry dungeon master
  • “You shall be held in the dungeon until I decide the proper punishment.2009, Sean Munger, “The Fire-Drake”, in Beowulf is Boring, Portland, Ore.: Lulu Press, →ISBN, part III (The Dragon), page 150. From the entry dungeon-master
  • The young men from Hong Kong shivered in the compartment like prisoners in a dungeon.2006, Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, →ISBN, page 314. From the entry white tea
  • On my way out of the dungeon, I nearly tripped on a trapdoor set into the floor.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave…. From the entry hit home
  • Want me to check them in for a two week stay in the dungeon, sweet kingy?2002, Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, "Kirby Comes to Cappy Town" (season 1, episode 1). From the entry kingy
  • I never heard of a dungeon mistress running things, although one or two might have tried it.1995, Anthony Pietropinto, “A Fragile Bond”, in The Dream Girl: The Imaginary Perfect Woman All Men Hide, Holbrook, Mass.: Adams…. From the entry dungeon mistress
  • In a castle dungeon in Nuremberg, Germany is a huge, medieval "iron lady" torture device.1952, Otto C. Lightner, Pearl Ann Reeder, Hobbies - Volume 57, Issues 1-8, page 40. From the entry iron lady
  • Imagine having London dungeons but, Manchester edition!2023 January 17, A-undecisiveOpinion, “Seems legit”, in r/manchester. From the entry scaghead
  • It was actually a dungeon, with the aforementioned cross, complete with restraints, hanging from one of the padded red walls.2018, Amanda Cummings, How I cuckolded My Husband. From the entry red room
  • “Here Draggy, Draggy, Draggy, where are you, you sadistic whelp” taunted Grinsfeld as he crept down the staircase into the dungeon.2017, Robert Montgomery, Through the Event Horizon, Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry draggy
  • Eventually I ended up finding how to enter a cave and completed a Zelda-like dungeon “level” to rescue the dog.2010, José P. Zagal, quoting Timothy, Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education, ETC Press, →ISBN, pages 84–85. From the entry Zelda-like
  • Is it Roguelike to the extent of having random dungeons?2008 March 24, Sir Chewbury Gubbins, “Easter Monday Play, Want, Bin”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 04…. From the entry roguelike
  • It felt more like a dungeon than a prison.2007, Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians. From the entry facilities
  • Just a bit of dungeon work — does a man good to do an honest day's work now and then.2007, Angela McAllister, Ian Beck, Digory and the Lost King. From the entry feathersome
  • Who knows how many forgotten souls had rotted away and eventually died within the walls of this dungeon?2001, Robert R. Hotchkiss, “In the Palace Dungeon”, in Earth of Fire, Sky of Ice: An Epic Fantasy Adventure (The Shaldrodan Saga; book 1)…. From the entry lumination
  • The dungeons of the time of Ivan the Terrible, known here as the “stone bags,” are in the cellars.1925 April 5, Emma Goldman, “Emma Goldman Denounces Rule of Soviet”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry Kreml
  • Maddy was in no particular order an heiress, a celebrity, and a renowned kinkstress with enough BDSM accoutrements to open her own dungeon.2017, Thea de Salle, The Lady of Royale Street. From the entry kinkstress
  • A basketball game will not have the same effect as a comic jump and run, a gory dungeon crawler, or an abstract puzzle game.2015, Rachel Kowert, Thorsten Quandt, The Video Game Debate, page 187. From the entry jump and run
  • “You're trespassing on my dungeon, manling.2010 July 12, Elizabeth Ito & Adam Muto, “Dungeon” (3:01 from the start), in Adventure Time, season 1, episode 18, spoken by Demon Cat…. From the entry manling
  • While ancient Romans enjoyed frolicking in their public baths, the Atlantians built hundreds of public dungeons filled with bondage devices of ever-increasing size and sophistication.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave…. From the entry Atlantian
  • Dungeon Master (DM) decisions are final.2003, Suzi Parker, “Sticks and Stones, Whips and Chains”, in Sex in the South: Unbuckling the Bible Belt, Boston, Mass.: Justin, Charles &…. From the entry DM
  • And these words, which I had never before recalled, had the effect of crying ‘Open, Sesame’, making the hinges of the dungeon spring open.2002, Marcel Proust, translated by Peter Collier, “The Fugitive”, in Christopher Prendergast, editor, The Prisoner and The Fugitive: A New…. From the entry open, sesame
  • All characters have "hit points" that increase as they traverse the dungeon performing their brave deeds (unless they're smitten by some monster).1986, MicroTimes: California's Computer Magazine, volume 3, Oakland, Calif.: BAM Publications, →OCLC, page 86. From the entry hit point
  • Here is the ducal palace, a plainish structure seven storeys high with dungeons below, and this now serves as the Museum of Popular Art.1975, Hubert Fenwick, The chateaux of France. From the entry plainish
  • Many kink communities have a TNG group in their area, and local dungeons will have TNG play party nights where only members who are 18-35 can attend.2020, Jessica M. W. Kratzer, “Kinky Access: Information Provided to Young Adult Kinksters by ‘The Next Generation’ Groups on Fetlife.com”…. From the entry tng

Meaning of dungeon

  1. noun An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
  2. noun The low area between two drumlins.
  3. noun The main tower of a motte or castle; a keep or donjon.

Full definition of dungeon

Questions about dungeon in a sentence

How do you use dungeon in a sentence?
Dungeon is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon.”
What is a short sentence with dungeon?
“Dungeon Master (DM) decisions are final.”
What does dungeon mean?
Dungeon means an underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.

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