monumentalize

Example Sentences

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For the architects, the descending bleachers constitute a “reverse stoop,” another monumentalized form, this time of the brownstone stoops that are the front-row seats to Harlem’s street life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Bristlecones can’t be monumentalized in the same way.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

That evening in an organ recital at Disney, Cameron Carpenter colorized and monumentalized Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, again to the astonishment of the audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2019

“I guess we like things that are potentially monumental, but that aren’t necessarily monumentalized yet,” the woman says.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2016

The choice had the great advantage of giving me a medium not dead, but turned to stone and so monumentalized as to have become immune from all risk of vulgarization.

From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor