Example sentences for: mausoleum

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

  • Designed for Louis XV as the church of Ste-Geneviève (1755), it was secularized during the Revolution to serve as a mausoleum.

  • Nevertheless, after the death of Chairman Mao (whose mausoleum on Tiananmen Square has become a much-visited modern monument to China’s modern “emperor”), Beijing entered a period of liberal economic reform that has again transformed the capital.

  • Pride of place goes to the Cuban founding father José Martí, in a vast octagonal mausoleum designed so that the tomb catches the sun throughout the day.

  • This meticulously preserved mausoleum was built in the mid-16th century for Gül Baba, a famous dervish killed during the siege of Buda in 1541 whose funeral was attended by the Sultan.

  • The Konjikido (Golden Hall) is a fabulously opulent mausoleum that Kiyohira Fujiwara built for himself in 1124.


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