monuments

Example Sentences

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"Monuments to Stalin are being erected all over the country," the woman said.

From Barron's • Oct. 30, 2025

Finally, in 1944, Cooper became a Monuments Man, investigating trade in Nazi-looted paintings in Switzerland and Italy—work for which his prosecutorial approach to art scholarship was ideally suited.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

He said one of the most worrying things was that most targeted Scheduled Monuments - a term used in the UK to describe archaeological areas of great national importance.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

"No serious city builds a modern future by demolishing its historical centres and cultural monuments," says Estela Radonjic Zivkov, the former deputy director of Serbia's Republic Institute for the Protection of Monuments.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

They were now part of the scenery like the Civil War Cannon and the World War Monuments, the flagpole.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier