NOUN
- memorial consisting of a structure or natural landmark of historic interest; set aside by national government for preservation and public enjoyment
How To Use national monument In A Sentence
- The petroglyph at the Kachina Bridge formation in Natural Bridges National Monument has drawn curious visitors for years.
- The national monument is designed to resist age and to preserve the memory of its past, present, and future citizens.
- Mr Cullen is due to give his consent to an application made by the local authority under the National Monuments Act to allow the local authority to remove part of the 13 th century fosse, or walled ditch.
- The fossils were found in Dinosaur National Monument in Utah.
- It should be known in this connection that according to the relevant law, no structure of any kind can be built within a radius of 100 metres of any registered national monument.
- The slipway where she was launched is already more or less a national monument, as are the shipyard gantries above, and the dry dock where the was fitted out, and the building where she was planned. Will the Titanic Ever Sink?
- We must erect a national monument to our forebears who lived and died in U.S. slavery.
- In southern Arizona, an endangered fish, the Quitobaquito pupfish (Cyprinodon macularius eremus), inhabits the springs, stream, and pond at Quitobaquito on Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
- The national monument is called the Great Stupa, which sums up the mood.
- Seventeen miles due west is the White Sands National Monument, 300 square miles of white gypsum dunes, the largest gypsum deposit in the world.