monument
Example Sentences
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On Friday, Shotton Residents Association chairman Steve Maitland said the tree had been put up as a monument to the fallen soldiers of World War One.
From BBC
"I think they deserve to have a monument, like there is to the unknown soldier in France," she says.
From BBC
An unshakable monument in the history of world cinema, Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” opened 100 years ago this December, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
The new monument joins sculptures of Harry Potter, Paddington and Bridget Jones as part of Leicester Square's Scenes in the Square trail.
From BBC
The actual design and construction was under the control of Philippe Villeneuve, who had already restored numerous medieval churches in his position as chief architect overseeing France’s historic monuments.
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