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
  • The monument is a nearly four-hour drive south of Yosemite.
    — Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN, 11 July 2022
  • This monument was a gift to Iceland from the United States in 1929.
    — Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • There is a monument in the park with a brief explanation of the event.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 21 June 2022
  • 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 monument is a sundial that is set to one o’clock as noon.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • There is no monument yet to the 60 Black people from Clarke who fought and died for the Union Army, but there is a graveyard.
    — Caitlin L. Chandler, Washington Post, 23 May 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
  • Bane’s name, along with K9 Riggs’ name and any future K9 units, would be added to the monument.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2022
  • After the school moved to West Hartford, the monument ended up in pieces.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 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
  • Low walls of tumbledown stone, kept in place as a monument, mark the outlines of the cottages that once stood here.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
  • Kate also laid a bouquet of white and blue flowers at the monument.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2022
  • 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
  • These days, monuments and memorials help visitors learn about this history (which was depicted in the novel and film The Bridge on the River Kwai).
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Similarly, to help preserve historical monuments, Seville plans to charge visitors between 3 and 4 euros to access the city’s famous Plaza de España.
    — Jessica Benavides Canepa, AFAR Media, 21 Feb. 2025

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