Sentence examples for highest monument from inspiring English sources

For centuries the dome of St . Pauls was the highest monument on the skyline, until the National Westminster Tower in 1980.

We both share the same territory of the historic empire of Alexander the Great and we have built the highest monument to Alexander in the world.

There, a new six-foot-high monument made of stone was officially unveiled.

Perhaps High Point park's most striking feature, winter or summer, is its 220-foot-high monument.

The 12-foot-high monument, representing bookshelves with the pages facing outward, was designed by the British artist Rachel Whiteread.

Its 37m-high monument, dedicated to the "liberation of Tibet from the imperialists", conveys an imperial signal of contempt.

The Greenwich architectural firm of Shope, Reno & Wharton Associates is designing a 14-foot-high monument in the form of a sundial.

Visitors have regularly been arrested and fined for relieving themselves on the 138ft-high monument, or climbing on it naked to pose for pictures.

Greek sculptors in 350BC created a 40-metre-high monument, crowned by a colossal four-horse chariot on a stepped pyramid.

Italy agreed to send the 82-foot-high monument back in 1998, but a border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea put those plans on hold.

Seven major arteries pump automobiles around the great paved space, which is dominated by Nelson's Column (1839 43), a 185-foot (56-metre) high monument to Lord Nelson that includes a 17-foot (5-metre) high statue of him by E.H. Baily.