Example sentences for: monuments

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

  • Unless he makes his money in show business, today's billionaire is a sexless and unattractive sap who lacks the vigor and vanity to crush his rivals and build towering monuments to his ego, although he may have a nice house.

  • Vedado is the city’s principal commercial and residential zone — the epicenter of middle-class Havana — with parks, monuments, hotels, restaurants, theaters, and the University of Havana.

  • During the following century, Portugal enjoyed a golden age of trade, and King Manuel celebrated the discoverers with two magnificent monuments.

  • An active government cultural policy in recent years has ­preserved the architectural monuments of the “national patrimony” from the ravages of time, weather, war, revolution, and urban development.

  • Its rise to prominence in the 17th and 18th centuries was accompanied by Italy’s first coherent urban planning; classical and Baroque palaces and monuments give its main streets and squares a great dignity and panache augmented by the city’s economic prosperity.


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