Sentence examples for decaying monument from inspiring English sources

RIGA, Latvia — Like the coliseums of ancient Rome, Daugava Stadium here in Latvia's capital is a decaying monument to a fallen athletic superpower.

The image of the classical ruin, epitomized by Thomas Cole's 1836 painting Course of Empire: Desolation, was of a picturesque, decaying monument, overcome by age and nature.

It sits like a decaying monument to America's manufacturing prosperity and all that came from it, such as culture, community and commerce.

If Mr Smith's Saturn project is not that something, GM could end its days as a decaying monument to the glory days of American manufacturing.

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Concerted restoration of decaying monuments was only inaugurated, in any appreciable degree, in the 1980s.

Black-and-white ink-brush drawings of toppled and decaying monuments hang on the wall behind the statues.

And some coal plants will simply be left to rust away where they stand, decaying monuments to the fossil fuel era.

In the process, he displaced some 500,000 residents, moving most of them into the housing projects that now stand as decaying monuments to his ruthless agenda.

The huge metropolitan regions in the Northeast, Midwest and heavily urbanized California are, by contrast, decaying monuments of the nation's past.

The post lies on the beach in a depression between two hills: To the east is the abandoned Executive Mansion, to the west the bombed and looted Ducor Palace Hotel, both decaying monuments to 25 years of political unrest, including a brutal 13-year civil war.