Sentence examples for like memorials from inspiring English sources

The albums already felt like memorials.

"These political statues are like memorials," he said, likening it to secular versions of the idols in Kumartuli.

Instead of talking to local historians and merchants the way most travel hosts do, he seeks out inanimate objects like memorials, statues and buildings — and talks to them.

Its story is told in black strips that are meant to suggest the unfolding of newsreels, the design echoing at times the placards of protest marchers; free-standing biographical pillars of memorabilia stand like memorials to martyrs.

Hakas are typically used to honor a person or special occasion, like memorials or weddings, or to express a collective emotion.

Hosted by Reynolds' son and Fisher's brother, Todd Fisher, the event ― or show, according to Todd, since "my mother didn't like memorials and funerals" ― was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.

Tour buses do not haul visitors to Auschwitz-like memorials, because they do not exist.

It bears not a single headstone, just a house-like memorial for the late-19th-century maggid, or preacher, Mordechai of Chernobyl, my paternal ancestor five generations back.

In the novel, Ms. Waldman imagines what would happen if a jury in charge of selecting a ground zero-like memorial were to choose a design created by a Muslim-American architect.

The Indian government has also drawn fire for trying to pass the disused factory off as a tourist spot – with local politicians last month proposing to build a Hiroshima-like memorial there depicting a detailed account of the disaster.

In "The Submission" Ms. Waldman, a former reporter for The New York Times, imagines what would happen if a jury in charge of selecting a ground zero-like memorial were to choose, from among the many anonymous submissions, a design that turns out to have been created by a Muslim-American architect.