Sentence examples for building monumental from inspiring English sources

The founder of one of ancient Rome's most illustrious clans, consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbato, began building monumental tombs for his relatives in the third century B.C., and the family continued to use the site as a place of rest until the first century A.D. The site was forgotten, then made into a public park in 1929 and shuttered for restorations in 1992.

Later Neolithic peoples began to use copper to make ornaments and simple tools and to modify their landscape by building monumental mortuary and ceremonial structures.

Huaquechula, a town located in the state of Puebla, two and a half hours southeast of Mexico City, is known for building monumental altars during the feast of the Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos.

The scale of the building is monumental.

In an era of much openly anti-Catholic sentiment, the building's monumental presence was intended to stake both a spiritual and civic claim.

The current $14 billion plan centers on building a monumental train station to replace the crowded and confusing underground corridors of Penn Station.

Palladio wrapped the old buildings in a new façade, a two-story loggia of open arches, with Tuscan columns on the first floor and Ionic on the second — a simple gesture that raises an ordinary building to monumental grandeur.

Google has also proved the value of "the more language data, the better" by building a monumental collection of texts, known as a corpus, from the 18 million books it has scanned and digitized from major research libraries.

A building, albeit monumental, was one thing, though.

In 1909 he advertised in the yearbook of the Brooklyn American Institute of Architects that "we build only monumental buildings".

In the 1930's, Mussolini began construction of monumental buildings on the edge of Rome for a "universal exposition," a world's fair to be held in 1940.