How to Use megalith in a Sentence
megalith
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The first-floor tenant is Ladurée, the megalith macaronier whose pastel hues match the Wing’s decor.
—Chloe Malle, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2018
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The temple consists of an array of chambers and some 200 standing stones, or megaliths — the first of their kind.
—Christopher Woolf, USA TODAY, 30 June 2017
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Over the next few thousand years megaliths were built across Europe and North Africa as well as southwest Asia.
—Christopher Woolf, USA TODAY, 30 June 2017
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His buildings rise from the earth like twisted post-post-modern megaliths.
—Maurice Alcala, Orange County Register, 5 May 2017
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The term megalith was first used for Stonehenge, to describe the stone edifices, often used for worship.
—Carlos Barria, National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2020
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The world of fine art has long looked to the monolith and the megalith as attempts to invoke the awe of that natural, near-mystical perfection.
—Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
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Clapp said, nodding at one of the brick megaliths that dominate the skyline of one of St. Paul’s poorest neighborhoods.
—Tad Vezner, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2019
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The site now features price comparisons to prove to its customers that its 72-hour sales are far cheaper than those online megaliths.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2019
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There is no surveillance at the site, leaving tourists free to interact with—and likely damage—the megaliths.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019
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These massive megaliths are estimated to be some 5,500 years old, making them the oldest site on this list.
—National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
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That triggered a rush of money into the game: from sponsors, broadcasters and, crucially, the megaliths of the men’s Premier League.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
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And in Indonesia, on the island of Sumba, people still build tombs with massive megaliths that take teams of a few hundred people to pull to the gravesite on wooden sledges.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2019
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Even as TikTok has become a megalith and other social networks have lost their touch with the youth, the site has retained its audience.
—Kevin Lozano, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
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Mnajdra includes three buildings, and on the summer solstice, the first rays of sun light up the edge of a megalith found to the left of the central doorway connecting the first pair of chambers to the inner chambers.
—Kristen Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
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A century ago, one candidate for New York’s most important building was a rumbling brick megalith on the Brooklyn waterfront as closely packed with moving parts as a Swiss watch.
—Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Oct. 2017
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The global energy business is a multifaceted megalith, projected to post $4 trillion in profits this year.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
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For centuries, the ancient megalith has intrigued and mystified all who’ve seen it, including the medieval historian Henry of Huntingdon.
—National Geographic, 19 July 2022
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Experts are divided on the nature of one megalith engraving, Euronews’ Marta Rodriguez Martinez reports.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019
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While music cataloging and streaming services are not a monolith, their actions have consequently turned music discovery into a set of megaliths that will continue to confound and limit artists and listeners alike.
—Mario J. Lucero, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2020
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