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monolith

[ UK /mˈɒnə‍ʊlˌɪθ/ ]
[ US /ˈmɑnəˌɫɪθ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk)

How To Use monolith In A Sentence

  • Begun in about 3100 B.C. and altered during the next two millennia, Stonehenge incorporates outsize monoliths quarried far from its site on Salisbury Plain in southern England.
  • Evidence such as this serves to undermine the apparently monolithic edifice of Victorianism.
  • With the collapse of the Soviet economy, prisons could no longer function as an industrial monolith.
  • At the end of the path was a doorway, which led into one of the monolithic buildings.
  • The phrase suggests a monolithic entity with a single purpose.
  • The nationalist people lived in the shadow of the Unionist monolith for fifty years until the events of the 1960's occurred.
  • On a basic level, the destruction of these austere cuboid monoliths on our skyline has provoked us to reflect on what buildings mean.
  • Above the cornice is another monolith, the lower part squared and the upper shaped into a pyramid. History of Phoenicia
  • Just as dodecaphony never followed a monolithic party line, neither did neoclassicism.
  • Industrial buildings tend to be large, monolithic, brown, bulky, and not subtle.
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