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an impressive building in which one or more corpses are entombedMore rarely, a mausoleum can reference any large, depressing room or building.
- The Taj Mahal is the world's most famous mausoleum.
- the mausoleum where Elvis Presley is buried
- But I must say Providence was kind enough to burn down that old mausoleum of mine, I'm too old to keep it up—maybe you're right, Jean Louise, this is a settled neighborhood.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Inside, it's still as a mausoleum—although unlike in a mausoleum, golden light filters in through mullion-paned windows high up along the walls.Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble
- It was like a message from the night of the grave; for this man's body had become his mausoleum.Jack London -- Sea Wolf
- He was interred in a mausoleum in Manchester.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- The driver takes a turn, and they pass a cemetery with a weather-worn mausoleum in the center of it.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Around them, Max could see the scattered mausoleums and tombs of the dead from ages past.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- [2] Of bronze, that came from the Mausoleum of Hadrian, and in Dante's time stood in the fore-court of St. Peter's, and is now in the Vatican gardens.Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
- Westminster Abbey was a tangled warren of mausoleums, perimeter chambers, and walk-in burial niches.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- I entered the mausoleum, following all the other tourists in single file.Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
- The wind chills me although the sunlight is warm enough as it glints off the flawless white stone of the silent mausoleum.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- The colossal subterranean hollow was filled with crumbling mausoleums, like small houses on the floor of a cave.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- It reminded me of an oversized mausoleum, with walls fifty feet high.Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- Crosses-large, larger, mausoleums ... and statuary everywhere.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- The vast house was like a mausoleum — . without a single sign of life inside its vaulted rooms.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum in Hanoi.Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried
- We needed to visit the mausoleum of our founder and great leader Mohammad Ali Jinnah.Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
- I've been knocking around in this mausoleum long enough."Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
- It must be a certainty, because it is so elegantly embalmed in this marble mausoleum of language.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
mausoleum = an impressive building in which one or more corpses are entombed
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