How to Use mausoleum in a Sentence

mausoleum

noun

• The mausoleum in Madrid known as the Valley of the Fallen.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 24 Apr. 2023
• The path leading to the mausoleum's door had been strewn with white rose petals.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Gala is even buried in the basement’s mausoleum, dressed in red Dior.
  — Gemma Askham, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
• Greg Fox brought his two daughters to see the mausoleum.
  — Sylvia Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2021
• In town, the Olympic great's pink-marble mausoleum lures few tourists.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 9 Jan. 2023
• Draped in the Turkish flag, the mausoleum began its slow climb.
  — Rachel Brown, National Geographic, 23 May 2017
• Next to the Basilica of San Francesco, a small mausoleum holds Dante’s bones.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021
• Buster said King’s mausoleum was smeared with a gallon of black paint.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 27 Sep. 2022
• Vic starts to dial the police, so Joe brains him with a mausoleum vase.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• The vault represents a tiny echo of the Lenin mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square.
  — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• The mausoleum of Zeynel Bay is safely installed in its new site.
  — Rachel Brown, National Geographic, 23 May 2017
• Inside the mausoleum, a small podium was set up along with 24 chairs in three rows.
  — CBS News, 9 June 2020
• Slain rapper and singer XXXTentacion has been laid to rest in a large mausoleum.
  — Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 July 2018
• Rogers died of cancer in 2003 and is buried in the family mausoleum there.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2019
• Some scorn the aesthetic as that of a giant mausoleum: bleak and cold.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
• If the ashes are deposited in an urn, will it be placed in a mausoleum?
  — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
• Hedges surround a sleek black tombstone and a gray mausoleum.
  — Sarah Hume, The Courier-Journal, 28 Nov. 2022
• In the mausoleum, both his grandfather and his father lie in state.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2020
• Movie starts at dusk, but arrive early for food trucks and a mausoleum tour!
  — Alissa Widman Neese, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024
• Some are buried in the ground and covered with flowers while others are left at the center of vast mausoleums.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
• Those looking to book their 50-minute tours in advance can do so through the mausoleum’s website.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2020
• Veil, widely admired in France, will become just the fifth woman laid to rest in the grand mausoleum.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 5 July 2017
• The mausoleum is a private business in partnership with the city.
  — Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The giant Russian oven, a whitewashed brick mausoleum, took up most of the one-room cabin.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
• Pope Leo X hired Michelangelo to design and build the mausoleum.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2021
• Work on the mausoleum atop a hill at the shrine had already begun when this latest change of mind was announced.
  — Farai Mutsaka, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
• By the end of the game, Exactech Arena resembled a mausoleum.
  — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• So green burials do not use stones or mausoleums or crypts or anything like that.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
• The scene ends with the truck flying through a mausoleum, also made from Styrofoam blocks.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• Today, three of the mausoleums are accessible to visitors for a small admission fee: the Changling, Zhaoling and Dingling tombs.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024