cenotaph

Example Sentences

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The cenotaph "is not a billboard for claims, however respectable they may be," he said.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

Flowers and messages were left at the cenotaph in the One Direction performer's home town following his death in Argentina in October.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2024

The meeting took place late that month in Gwangju, by a gray stone cenotaph near the site of the minibus shooting.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2023

“A vast cenotaph of secession” was how the journalist and historian Tony Horwitz described Richmond in his 1998 book, “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War.”

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2022

The town of CHHATARPUR, which is named after Chhatar Sal, and contains his cenotaph, is 70 m. by road S.W. of Banda.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various