Sentence examples for monumental event from inspiring English sources

Sobering words on the eve of a monumental event.

"And this is a monumental event," he said.

"What was potentially a historic and monumental event turned into a nightmare for everyone concerned," Prince said.

For decades we have known that the retirement of the baby boomers would be a monumental event for the economy.

The consignment in 1965 of the hangman's noose to the penal history museum was, by any standards, a monumental event.

In other words, to bring home the impact of a monumental event, tell how it touches ordinary people.

Even requests to attend seemingly monumental events like weddings, 40th-birthday parties and Christmas dinners routinely go unanswered.

Bell, a former teacher, said he and Panessidi were old enough to have "seen monumental events" over their lifetimes.

He looked relaxed and calm - everything that might not have been expected given the monumental events that had just occurred.

In "I Curse the River of Time," set in 1989, three monumental events twine around one another in Arvid Jansen's penumbral soul.

Except that monumental events develop their own momentum -- like Wagner's "Ring" cycle -- and as one sonata succeeded another, the listener was drawn in more and more.