Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for megaliths
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Inside, design inspiration comes from classic cinema, with rustic parquet floors, lacquered timbers, and local stones.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026 -
Most home cooks only need two stones to sharpen and set their edges, but professional knife sharpeners might use a broader combination of stones at various grits to achieve a perfect edge.—
Jesse Raub,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
30 Mar. 2026
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Unlike the expansive battlefields and grand monuments that make up much of the park service, the Women’s Rights National Historical Park blends into the rest of the town, two unassuming brick buildings accompanied by an outdoor memorial and a small parking lot.—
Beverly Gage,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2026
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The United States is filled with memorials and monuments to its past.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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The film’s speculative elements — monoliths accelerating human evolution — were philosophical rather than scientific.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
3 Apr. 2026
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Snowfalls coat its granite monoliths, and cold temperatures turn parts of Yosemite Falls to ice.—
Skye Sherman,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Feb. 2026
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Dozens of Irish names can also be found on gravestones in the town cemetery.—
John Lauritsen,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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Many gravestones were broken and lay crumbled on the ground.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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In 1975, the museum purchased his work Georgia Gate, a structure of fluidly bent pine staves inspired by photos of Georgia tombstones the artist saw in musicologist Marshall Stearns’s 1970 book The Story of Jazz.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
8 Mar. 2026
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Last year, the City Council approved an ordinance to offer rewards for information involving theft of city plaques, tombstones, statues, light standards, and copper wire, and theft of metals linked to the Sixth Street Bridge.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
18 Feb. 2026
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The alleged thieves ripped bronze plaques and grave markers from headstones and walls of the cemetery's mausoleum.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
18 Mar. 2026
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There were previously more headstones before a 1940s landowner had many of them hauled away into the swamp.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 Mar. 2026
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Pyramids and obelisks are sun symbols, and Hawksmoor and his fellow Masons have positioned them round the city.—
Hari Kunzru,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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The Obelisco collection pays homage to the obelisks originally built at the entrances of Egyptian temples at the top of pyramids to evoke the sun’s rays to honor the Sun God Ra.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
10 Dec. 2025
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“Megaliths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/megaliths. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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