Sample sentences for MAUSOLEUM

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Definition

an impressive building in which one or more corpses are entombed

More 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

mausoleum = an impressive building in which one or more corpses are entombed

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

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