Sentence examples for towering monument from inspiring English sources

While a towering monument to Chinese civilization, it was hardly impregnable.

Beside the expo's entrance, the towering Monument to the Conquerors of Space depicted a probe swooping up to the heavens.

But if he has been hidden away, not with costly ceremony but in an unnamed grave, not counted worthy of a towering monument?

The towering monument was designed by the United Confederate Veterans, and President Grover Cleveland traveled to Illinois for the 1895 dedication ceremony.

Elsewhere, Long, Last, Happy: New & Selected Stories (Grove) served as both seductive introduction and towering monument to the late, great Southern stylist Barry Hannah.

The first skirmish of the war that resulted in Texas' secession from Mexico was fought there, and the town's plaza has a towering monument to that conflict.

Block by block, layer by layer, the Baphuon temple is rising again as one of the towering monuments of Angkor.

So, I might add, is every single person we meet in this stark, sun-blinded world of sand and towering monuments.

Richmond, with its beautiful old brick houses and towering monuments to Confederate heroes, was thought to be out of the killing zone.

It is a city of megalomaniacal architecture and public spaces: immense palaces and coliseums, grandiose boulevards (six, eight, ten lanes wide), towering monuments to the Great Leader, meandering greenways, prim topiary gardens, and skyscrapers (although the tallest is a shell, abandoned as structurally unusable during its construction).

They should be tall, towering monuments to not just the achievements of American industry and perseverance, but to their potential as well.