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The Washington Monument, a towering obelisk in the National Mall, is a tribute to the first President of the United States.obelisk = stone pillar with a pyramidal top
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The family gathered around the small obelisk in the cemetery, paying their respects to their beloved grandmother.
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The ancient Egyptians erected obelisks as symbols of the sun god Ra, and many of these impressive structures still stand today.obelisks = stone pillars with a pyramidal tops
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Instead of an obelisk covered in names, there was a statue of three people: a man with untidy hair and glasses, a woman with long hair and a kind, pretty face, and a baby boy sitting in his mother's arms. (source)obelisk = stone pillar with a pyramidal top
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When it finally turned off, there was Toronto up ahead, an artificial mountain of glass and concrete rising from the flat lakeside plain, all crystals and spires and giant shining slabs and sharp-edged obelisks, floating in an orange-brown haze of smog.† (source)
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Singlehandedly responsible for filling Paris with Egyptian obelisks, art, and artifacts.† (source)
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In the absolute center of the city I found a towering obelisk-shaped temple with wind-blasted gray walls.† (source)
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Nothing else had changed at all, except that all the old books and bric-a-brac — the marble cockatoos, the obelisks—were covered with an additional layer of dust.† (source)
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The yard light cast a yellow glow against the squat obelisk of the barn, leaving the back double doors in shadow.† (source)
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We moved deeper into the trees, and I began to make out solid shapes rising from the ground—obelisks, columns, arches.† (source)
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But turning in place on the Place de la Concorde, seeing the Arc de Triomphe, and the Eiffel Tower, and the Tuileries, and the cars and Vespas zipping around the great obelisk, Sofia had an inkling of what her father had been trying to say.† (source)
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They picked shapes—obelisks, pyramids—that were charged with symbolic magic.† (source)
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The horse paused beside the obelisk.† (source)
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Then EA's regional service of DC-3s flew a daily looping, hopscotch route so that you could leave the Hilton Addis Ababa in the morning, see the castles in Gondar, the ancient obelisks in Axum, the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, and be back in the Hilton lounge in Addis just when the good-time girls were drifting in trailing perfume, and the Velvet Ashantis were playing their theme song, a version of "Walk—Don't Run" by the Ventures.† (source)
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A low obelisk glowed softly.† (source)
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Throughout this mad jumble, however, Max could see unmistakable elements of human architecture—Chinese pavilions, Islamic minarets, Egyptian obelisks, massive domes and cupolas whose scale dwarfed their human antecedents.† (source)
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