mausoleum

How To Use mausoleum In A Sentence

• In the public sphere, great public buildings, monuments, temples and mausoleums are a sign of excess.
• The most painful result of this shortage can be seen in mausoleums (small buildings for burial above ground) of cemeteries of Cairo, Egypt's capital city.
• We forget that many great works of art were not created for the mausoleums we call museums.
• We actually talked to a man who's been inside that mausoleum, and he said there are what he calls crypt keepers inside who keep the people who don't own property, as he put it, inside, or shouldn't be in there, they keep them out. CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2009
• So selection always was task of paramount importance in the mausoleum construction.
• There would have to have been a change of plan, with the family mausoleum growing room by room from the original chamber designed for the pharaoh himself. Times, Sunday Times
• So now when I go to one of our fabulous temples or palaces or mosques or mausoleums, I will see them for what they are.
• Because it's small, no one loathes it the way they hate the big-box stores that sit like pharonic mausoleums in a blacktop desert.
• Rather than being seen as a temple to art, the building was described as a mausoleum with cabbage on top. Archive 2009-03-01
• Alexander wanted to visit the newly completed temple to Athena in Priene, designed by Pythius himself, architect of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Alexander the Great