memorial

Example Sentences

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He has recently constructed "a memorial for the descendants of Africans, the diaspora... whom we have told for a long time that history began with slavery, with colonisation".

From Barron's

It comes just months after King Charles III dedicated the UK's first memorial to those impacted by the so-called 'gay ban'.

From BBC

“I was at his memorial. I didn’t spit on his grave. I put a flower on it.”

From Los Angeles Times

They also laid flowers at a memorial, which has grown over the week, near Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.

From BBC

Among the oil paintings, art deco ephemera and geological artifacts, I wasn’t expecting a preserved memorial from the days following the 2015 terrorist attacks, and it leveled me.

From The Wall Street Journal