Example sentences for: mausoleum

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

  • Via di Ripetta `Embankment Street' skirts the Tiber River as it passes the Ara Pacis and the Mausoleum of Augustus.

  • Finally Victor Hugo’s gigantic funeral in 1885 settled the issue in favor of a secular mausoleum.

  • Also located on the south side of Tiananmen Square is the Mao Zedong Mausoleum (Mao Zhuxi Jinian Bei), opened in 1977, a year after the Chairman’s death.

  • He died here in 1936: Melancholy gardens of dark laurel and cypresses lead up to a hilltop mausoleum of the writer’s sarcophagus flanked by those of his disciples.

  • 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.


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