Sentence examples for on a monument from inspiring English sources
Epigram, originally an inscription suitable for carving on a monument, but since the time of the Greek Anthology applied to any brief and pithy verse, particularly if astringent and purporting to point a moral.
As the naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in "On a Monument to the Pigeon," composed in 1947, "For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.
They laid wreaths, not at a Christian shrine, but on a monument to fascist heroes.
All their names were inscribed on a monument that circled around the fountain.
I imagined I was looking on a monument to the cold war, and how apt it seemed.
"Distance does not matter," reads the inscription on a monument near Mr. Hussain's deserted former house in Karachi, where his name evokes both fear and favor.
Be that as it may, everybody winds up battling on top of a monument in Budapest.
My intended focus will be on designing a monument.
Should the marriage end, the tree may grow on as a monument to disaffection.
3. Carry on past a monument to the memory of Thomas Hardy, erected by some of his American admirers in 1931.
Like millions of viewers, I was intrigued by the pageantry of the Yankees' final game at Yankee Stadium on Sunday — a monument to history and self-indulgence.
