Example sentences for: monumental

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

  • Chiran’s Kamikaze Museum, which includes a monumental statue of a pilot, exhibits the young men’s uniforms, helmets, and final letters to their families explaining that they were continuing the samurai spirit of defending the country’s traditional values.

  • The 1943 bombing, combined with artillery fire at the end of the war, left the tower with the broken stump of its spire — 63 m (206 ft) compared with its original 113 m (370 ft) — as a monumental ruin recalling the city’s destruction.

  • Within this monumental museum, built in 1959 in the Chinese style, are 14 galleries with contemporary as well as traditional artworks.

  • The streets Brasil and Obrapía lead directly west to the monumental Capitolio, a replica of the American capitol in Washington, D.C.

  • Three years later, Stanley Elkins published the equally monumental Slavery . Though a liberal like Stampp, Elkins accepted the notion of the docile, contented Sambo--though hardly as evidence of slavery's mildness.


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