Example sentences for: obelisk

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

  • Stroll alongside a pleasant little garden, Parc des Gouverneurs, with its obelisk paying tribute to Generals Wolfe and Montcalm, both killed at the great battle for Québec in 1759.

  • Today an obelisk in Ibiza’s port honours the daring Corsairs.

  • There is no settlement here, just a collection of craft and souvenir stalls, a bar, a restaurant, and an obelisk marking the highest point on the Algarve.

  • The town square, Praça do Marquês do Pombal, is the tour de force of Vila Real, with black-and-white pavement radiating from an obelisk in the center of the square like rays from the sun.

  • Hideous high-rise ministry buildings erected in the 1950s by Batista and a giant, tapering concrete obelisk — looking like a rocket launch pad with a pensive José Martí at its foot — provide the scenery.


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