Example sentences for: monoliths

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

  • This professional audience for difficult "texts" created the demand that Pynchon first filled with V. and Gravity's Rainbow , the semiotic monoliths whose mix of scientific imagery, Cold War absurdity, and Joycean allusion provided a kind of full-employment program for a generation of rising postdocs.

  • The row of giant black rectangles dominating puny pedestrians walking below ( Wall Street , 1915) inspired numerous social interpretations, but to our eyes it might look like an anticipation of obdurate monoliths by artists from Ad Reinhardt to Richard Serra.

  • Neither are monoliths.

  • The Tobermory Islands are renowned for their rock formations, most notably Flowerpot Island, where tall limestone monoliths have been eroded into bizarre vase-like shapes.


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