Example sentences for: mausoleum

How can you use “mausoleum” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On the west bank of the river — set in a desert landscape — is the seventh-century Coptic monastery of St. Simeon now sadly in ruins, and the Mausoleum of the Aga Khan (1877–1957), spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim sect.

  • So as Ilyich's body was eternalized in embalming fluids (or duplicated in wax, as some skeptics believe) and displayed much like the relics of saints under an impressive mausoleum in Red Square against the Kremlin wall, the city created by the westernizing tsar and named for himself with a western, German name, Sankt-Peterburg , was renamed Leningrad.

  • Chinese pilgrims of all political persuasions come from many countries to honor the founder of the Chinese Republic at the Mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshanling), in the Purple Hills east of Nanjing.

  • Lenin in his mausoleum is an historical symbol of our past, but I agree with Alexiy II, patriarch of all Russia, when he says that it isn't Christian-like behavior to keep the body of a long-dead person on public display."

  • The oldest most striking of the Byzantine monuments, in the northern corner of the city center, is the fifth-century Mausoleum of Galla Placidia.


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