How to Use monument in a Sentence

monument

noun

• They have erected a monument in his honor.
• And Horn Cloud led the effort to erect a stone monument on the site in 1903.
  — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2023
• Stonehenge was built as a monument to the alignment of the sun and moon.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
• For a change of pace, try checking out the monuments at night.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 29 June 2023
• The monument includes the names of all Texas Golf Hall of Fame inductees.
  — Mark Kazlowski, Dallas News, 7 May 2023
• The monument also serves as the starting point for a hike straight to Isaac Bay.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• Clues were found in the remains of the buildings, ground plans, monuments, and plazas.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
• This monument was a gift to Iceland from the United States in 1929.
  — Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2023
• On the face of the stone, 12 stars streak from left to right, leading toward a metal star that sits atop the monument.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2023
• The ovoo is a monument to the spirits of the natural world, known here as nagas and savdags.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Locals and tourists came out to the monument to see the vandalism.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
• At the foot of the small stone monument are gifts: feathers, stones, necklaces, shells and flowers.
  — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
• The monument to grief on the National Mall was never built to last.
  — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• This weekend, the world’s greatest monument to love sits atop a hill on Route 1 in Saugus.
  — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
• By the way, that’s not the only civil-rights monument on the San Jose State campus to get a makeover this summer.
  — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
• The Altar Stone, the largest of the bluestones used to build Stonehenge, lies at the heart of the ancient monument in southern England.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
• The Fort Worth of the 1800s, a hub of livestock trading and a living monument to cowboy culture, hasn’t died.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
• The monument that's in the center of town, there are several others.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Oct. 2023
• Now a monument will be built in downtown to honor the victims of this massacre.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• Yet all these monuments to the suffering of the poor were written by authors who were not poor.
  — Lennard J. Davis, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024
• The principal monument, a limestone cylinder, would contain a small tree as well as the names of the dead.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• Driving in from the entrance of the monument, take a right to head down Cabrillo Road, a scenic route that heads south toward the trailheads.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024
• Since joining the Times 36 years ago, Plaschke has been lucky to witness some human moments from the monument.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• Yet still the monument remained, despite weekly protests from the group Take ’Em Down Jax and others.
  — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• The monument will span three sites across two states, each one dedicated to a different part of the tragedy.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2023
• The theft was first noticed over two weeks ago by a security guard at the monument.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 June 2024
• Three of the lodgings sit within the monument's boundaries.
  — Andrea Sachs, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• When the city was at its height, the temple was home to royal tombs and stone monuments dedicated to past rulers.
  — Bylizzie Wade, science.org, 30 Mar. 2023
• Stroll through any of its 22 squares and stop at the countless monuments throughout the district to learn more about Savannah’s centuries-old history.
  — Karen Norian, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2024
• The roughly seven-by-seven-foot monument, topped with a stone replica of a coffin adorned with firefighting tools, stands as silent witness to a time when this land did not crawl with life.
  — Christina Ray Stanton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024