How to Use monolith in a Sentence

monolith

noun
  • The media monolith owns a number of networks.
  • The new office building is a massive steel and concrete monolith.
  • The white world and the black are not shown as monoliths.
    Walter Mosley, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
  • And on the men’s side, the Big Four monolith is breaking apart like Pangea.
    SI.com, 16 May 2018
  • The movement to pare back the role of police isn't a monolith, though.
    CNN, 17 June 2020
  • The creation of the iconic monolith was a years-long process.
    Michael Cavna, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The sun shot right down the hallway, hitting the monolith and the stone marker.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
  • While Latinos tend to vote for Democrats, the group is by no means a monolith.
    Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Ropes were then placed around the monolith, then chains, but the stubborn stone wouldn’t yield.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 3 June 2020
  • The Tafoni is a 50-foot monolith that juts up from a forested slope on the edge of a canyon.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • By the third cycle, the monoliths were removing 75% of the PFOA in three hours.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2024
  • The brick monoliths along the French River were once the economic heartbeat of the town.
    Denise Coffey, courant.com, 10 June 2019
  • It has been said too many times over the last week, but Black voters are no monolith.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • There is no monolith, no secret base on the rim of a lunar crater.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Yet, investors should be aware that tech is not a monolith.
    Jon Markman, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • The monolith found in the Nevada desert appears similar to the ones found in 2020.
    Christopher Brito, CBS News, 18 June 2024
  • Now, just as Christians aren't a monolith, neither are the Nones.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Read more about the first days of the monolith’s appearance in Bellvue here.
    Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 3 July 2024
  • This one appeared a few days after the monolith in the Utah desert was removed.
    Brett Harman, CNN, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Even her show's title is meant to fight against monoliths.
    Whitney Friedlander, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
  • But not everyone wants, or has space for, a huge monolith of a PC in their home.
    Harry Rabinowitz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The bottom line: There are no monoliths in this election.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 18 July 2024
  • The Xbox Series X is a Kubrickian black monolith with a weird grate and an alien green light on top.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The movement is not a monolith, and looks different from state to state.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Joe can’t think of their union like some sort of non-eroding stone, a monolith to their romance.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2021
  • This is not to say that the AAPI community is a monolith.
    NBC News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • To be more precise a pair of Prada monolith boots, straight off the catwalk.
    Kara Nesvig, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Which is kind of the point as Black people, and the Black experience, is not a monolith.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Its massive cliff face is among the largest granite monoliths in North America.
    Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Remember that neurodivergent people are not a monolith, but many of us excel in our careers due to being both innovative and creative.
    Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025

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