Sample Sentences for
monolith
(auto-selected)

Show 3 more sentences
  • I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith.†  (source)
  • The house is bigger than she imagined—a white Victorian monolith with curlicues and black shutters.†  (source)
  • Rachel's team concentrated their work in the structure called the Sphinx, although the creature represented in stone was neither human nor lion; it may not have been a creature at all, although the smooth lines atop the stone monolith suggested curves of a living thing, and the sweeping appendages made everyone think of wings.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 2 word variations
  • The tunnel was also a convenient means of going unseen from the city to a small airport from which Politburo members could be flown to their ultimate redoubt, beneath the granite monolith at Zhiguli.†  (source)
  • The seventeen-story monoliths were among the most dangerous projects in all of Baltimore.†  (source)
  • Cotsakis was a monolith of thick and wadded flesh.†  (source)
  • Two five-story monoliths rose from either end of a long granite reflecting pool.†  (source)
  • His opponent smashed into a stone monolith with such force that it cracked.†  (source)
  • They left the fertile fields and flew across a great plateau of granite-like rock shaped into enormous monoliths.†  (source)
  • Carved thirteen hundred years before Jesus took his first breath—this numinous monolith had no relevance there, no link to modern Christianity.†  (source)
  • Those had been towering even without the help of illusion, and now they rose above him like ancient monoliths, green and gray and cracked.†  (source)
  • For one protracted moment Edgar was sure Claude had begun tearing down the monolith of straw to get at him.†  (source)
  • In the midst of all that unreality, cairns and broken monoliths, I had a dreamlike sense of having failed him, as if I'd botched some vital fairytale task through clumsiness and ignorance.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)