obelisk

Example Sentences

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Families eat and enjoy music by a historic obelisk, the first monument demarcating the border, from the mid-1800s.

From Los Angeles Times

And the public thought the new steel towers resembled the impressive obelisks on either side of the doors of ancient Egyptian temples.

From BBC

For decades under Soviet rule, there was little to mark the massacre site, except a simple obelisk that referred to "Soviet" victims, without mentioning the Jews, who were the main victims.

From BBC

A few truck drivers heading south to the capital, Kyiv, cluster near the Three Sisters monument - a white obelisk erected back in 1975 to mark where the borders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus meet.

From BBC

An obelisk commemorating the second of those insurrections went up in New Orleans 18 years after the shooting stopped and came down only in 2017.

From New York Times