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
• In 2016, Putin erected a monument to Prince Vladimir near the Kremlin.
  — Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
• 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
• The tradition dates back to 1962, though the monument was decorated for Christmas annually for more than a decade before that.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2024
• The ceremony marked the first time that anyone not involved in the reconstruction had been permitted to enter the cathedral in the years since the blaze destroyed its spire and roof, and left the monument covered in toxic dust and charred debris.
  — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024