Example sentences for: monumental

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

  • Lincoln died in a room barely large enough to hold his bed, but Brady photographed the multitude of mourners one by one in his studio, and the painter Alonzo Chappel assembled them (often in the exact poses Brady had choreographed) in a monumental and wildly popular painting, The Last Hours of Lincoln (1868).

  • North of Santa Maria Novella, spare a glance at the simple, clean-lined architecture of the Stazione Centrale (main railway station), built in 1935 during Mussolini’s heyday but somehow defying the prevailing monumental bombast of the Fascist regime that you can see in the monstrosity of Milan’s central station.

  • Since then at least one monumental social change has swept across suburbia--namely the entry of married women into the work force--without generating a literature.

  • The Bishop White Gallery features Buddhist and Taoist frescoes of the 13th-century Yuan Dynasty, under Emperor Kublai Khan, along with some monumental polychrome and gilded wooden statues of the Buddha.

  • The black marble and brass of its monumental entrance hall impose a pious appreciation of Canada’s oldest banking institution.


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