Example sentences for: monolith

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

  • You can see Yosemite Creek drop down half a mile from the opposite wall in the spectacular Upper, Middle, and Lower Yosemite Falls, and you’ll get an outstanding view of the majestic Half Dome, a granite monolith sliced in two by the Ice Age glaciers.

  • That's the question that Kubrick no doubt intended us to ask each other late into the night, just as we once endlessly pondered the meaning of the black monolith in 2001 . But 2001 was a mystery, and Eyes Wide Shut , for all its atmospheric high-mindedness, is just a muddle.

  • At Craigellachie, right beside the road, about 25 km (15 miles) east of Shuswap Lake, a granite monolith marks the spot where the eastern and western sections linked up to form Canada’s first transcontinental railway.

  • His statue — inexplicably pinned halfway up a monolith in a very martyr-like pose, although he died in his bed (in China) — stands with its back to the sea beside a sculpted frieze dedicated to the suffering of his Japanese converts.

  • The Mentadent pump is just like the monolith from 2001 , if the monolith were white instead of black and emitted a fluoride toothpaste instead of consciousness-altering rays.


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