How to Use cenotaph in a Sentence

cenotaph

noun

• Bach laid a wreath and observed a minute of silence in the rain in front of the Peace Memorial Park cenotaph.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 16 July 2021
• People crowded around the white fence surrounding the cenotaph to watch a wreath being placed at the memorial.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2018
• The pharaoh also took the care to honor his grandmother Tetisheri by building a cenotaph to her in Abydos, the center of the cult of Osiris, the god of the afterlife.
  — National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2019
• Most striking is that the cenotaph, located on the edge of the cemetery, features Morgan facing outward, away from the other graves.
  — Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
• Three buildings the Texas General Land Office recently agreed to buy are seen in the upper right side of the frame just behind the white marble cenotaph.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Dec. 2017
• His gravestone was actually a cenotaph, a stone with his name on it but no body buried underneath.
  — CBS News, 1 Jan. 2020
• Some survivors and their relatives prayed at the park’s cenotaph before the ceremony.
  — Fox News, 6 Aug. 2020
• Some survivors and their relatives prayed at the park's cenotaph before the ceremony.
  — Author: Mari Yamaguchi, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2020
• The cenotaph is surrounded by four flaming torches that are kept constantly lit.
  — Smithsonian, 26 May 2017
• The cenotaph is surrounded by four flaming torches that are kept constantly lit.
  — Smithsonian, 26 May 2017
• Baker’s remains will stay in Monaco, where she was buried, but her presence at the Pantheon is commemorated with a plaque on a cenotaph.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 30 Nov. 2021
• Air force officers carried her cenotaph along a red carpet that stretched for four blocks of cobblestoned streets from the Luxembourg Gardens to the Pantheon.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2021
• Baker's military medals lay atop the cenotaph, which was draped in the French tricolor flag and contained soils from her birthplace in Missouri, from France and from her final resting place in Monaco.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2021
• Baker's military medals lay atop the cenotaph, which was draped in the French tricolor flag and contained soils from her birthplace in Missouri, from France, and from her final resting place in Monaco.
  — Sylvie Corbet and Jeffrey Schaeffer, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2021
• Baker’s military medals lay atop the cenotaph, which was draped in the French tricolor flag and contained soils from her birthplace in Missouri, from France, and from her final resting place in Monaco.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021
• In a symbolism-laden procession, soldiers lifted her cenotaph, draped with the French flag, and carried it along a red carpet to the country’s national mausoleum.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• The upright assemblage stands somewhere between a diorama and a cenotaph.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
• Military officers carried her cenotaph along a red carpet that stretched for four blocks of cobblestoned streets from the Luxembourg Garden to the Pantheon.
  — Sylvie Corbet and Jeffrey Schaeffer, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2021
• Military officers carried her cenotaph along a red carpet that stretched for four blocks of cobblestoned streets from the Luxembourg Garden to the Pantheon.
  — Sylvie Corbet and Jeffrey Schaeffer, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2021
• Walking around Ramgarh, our tour guide showed us Poddar houses, Poddar temples, Poddar cenotaphs, all covered in some of the region’s best preserved frescoes, what pride in roots!
  — Namrata Poddar, Longreads, 8 Mar. 2018
• Shah Jahan’s cenotaph is peculiarly positioned west of the central axis, throwing off the equilibrium.
  — Lisa Cheng, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2017
• Shah Jahan’s cenotaph is peculiarly positioned west of the central axis, throwing off the equilibrium.
  — Lisa Cheng, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2017
• The 649 Argentinian soldiers who died in the conflict, one of the bloodiest events of Argentina's long military dictatorship, are remembered at a dedicated cenotaph in Buenos Aires.
  — Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022

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