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Example sentences for: obelisk

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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.
In the middle of the square, an obelisk commemorates a brave defense against some 15,000 besieging Turks in 1558.
The pavement’s black and white wedges of stone radiate 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.
Two blocks north is another lively square, Praça dos Restauradores, with its historic obelisk commemorating the overthrow of Spanish Hapsburg rule in 1640.