Example sentences for: mausoleum

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

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

  • 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.

  • Adorned by ten angel sculptures by Bernini and his studio, it arrives at the Castel Sant’Angelo, originally built as Hadrian’s mausoleum in a.d. 139.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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