Example sentences for: monument

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

  • Rising above the flower beds is the solemn Scott Monument, complete with a resident flock of pigeons that badger people on surrounding park benches for crumbs.

  • Colleoni willed his huge fortune to Venice on the understanding that his monument would be on Piazza San Marco.

  • A colonnaded circular monument to the right was raised in the memory of Dugald Stewart, professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in the 1780s.

  • The imposing Schiller-Denkmal (1868), a monument sculpted in Carrara marble, surrounds the writer with the muses of philosophy, poetry, drama, and history.

  • The Monument to the People’s Heroes (Renmin Yinxiong Jinian Bei), on the west side of the square, became internationally renowned when it served as the command post for pro-democracy demonstrators during the 1989 occupation of Tiananmen.


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