Sentence examples for building a monument from inspiring English sources

"I'm not building a monument".

He insists that he is not building a monument to himself.

Building a monument in the nation's capital can take 10 years from start to finish.

The government has agreed so far to just one demand – building a monument in Kathmandu in memory of those killed.

Whether she is transferring the process of matzo manufacture onto paper, or building a monument to ten years of hair, she's usually trying to make historical change visible.

"I was up there for a summer with my art school and a million mosquitoes building a monument," said Julia Guelman, a Moscow art gallery owner.

Clearly, the idea that Ms. Khan and her partners would one day be accused of building a victory monument to terrorism did not come up -- an oversight with consequences.

There is nothing wrong — and much that is right — with building a national monument to memorialize the nearly 3,000 people killed in the 9/11 attacks a decade ago.

The church was building a towering monument of the angel Moroni, and Thane stood by the road to answer questions from passers-by.

"Building a lasting monument to the dead for the living may well be an important factor, and also rooting people in with landscape traditions, given the proximity to the neolithic and bronze age cairns.

Sahagún was a Franciscan priest who arrived in Mexico very early (1529), learned the Náhuatl tongue, and spent his life building a wonderful monument, a real encyclopaedia called the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España ("General History of the Things of New Spain").