Sentence examples for singular monument from inspiring English sources

— When the three-million-pound Great Platte River Road Archway, as long as a football field, was suspended over Interstate 80 here nearly a decade and a half ago, promoters hailed it as a singular monument to westward expansion that would draw at least a million visitors a year.

Even if its attitude toward the environment now strikes us as deeply naive, the Astrodome deserves to be protected simply as a singular monument to the American confidence and Texas swagger of the 1960s.

But now, Britain, in a singular moment of fear, driven by lies, has opted to walk away from that unique monument to a new world.

Maya stelae (singular stela) are monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica.

For decades after the war, Appomattox lay in obscurity with barely a monument to mark its singular place in American history.

Lee builds a monument not only to Jackson's singular talent but also to his capacity to leverage this talent properly — by way of rigorous planning and extraordinarily hard work.

Beyond these quiet hills, across that special bridge, is a city of monuments dedicated to visionary leaders and singular moments in the life of our Republic.

The whole piece is meant to function as a monument to Obama "with an approach that eschews an overarching, singular quality -- something that views the presidency in its entirety".

"It is both a record of growth of New York City and a singular representation of one of the greatest collections of architectural funerary monuments in the world," Parks noted.

"My aim with this project has been to create a monument to President Barack Obama with an approach that eschews an overarching, singular quality—something that views the presidency in its entirety".

This fitting tribute to its singular author, who died this year, is far too filled with life to be only a monument.