How to Use mausoleum in a Sentence

mausoleum

noun
  • The vessel was one of six funerary urns containing remains found in the mausoleum.
    Jack Guy, CNN, 19 June 2024
  • Inside one mausoleum lies a respected doctor who succumbed to a heart attack while on the way to a patient.
    Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 29 May 2018
  • Slain rapper and singer XXXTentacion has been laid to rest in a large mausoleum.
    Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 July 2018
  • Some mausoleums risk being swallowed completely by vegetation, while others have already caved to its demands.
    Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 29 May 2018
  • Performers use their hands to disrupt an electric field, producing eerie music best heard among Victorian graves and echoing mausoleums.
    Philly.com, 28 June 2018
  • At the Colón graveyard the mausoleums of important pre-revolutionary families near the gates give way at the periphery to unmarked stone slabs.
    The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • And architect Liz Diller wants museums to move—on wheels, if need be—to find and follow audiences rather than serve as intimidating mausoleums to art.
    WSJ, 10 May 2018
  • The mausoleum’s location wasn’t provided, but the photo shows a large stone structure fronted by ornate black French doors in the center with two Greek columns at either end.
    Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 July 2018
  • His mother, Cleopatra Bernard of Parkland, posted on Instagram a photograph of his mausoleum.
    Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018
  • The mausoleum in Madrid known as the Valley of the Fallen.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Greg Fox brought his two daughters to see the mausoleum.
    Sylvia Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • In town, the Olympic great's pink-marble mausoleum lures few tourists.
    John Phillips, Car and Driver, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Next to the Basilica of San Francesco, a small mausoleum holds Dante’s bones.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Buster said King’s mausoleum was smeared with a gallon of black paint.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Vic starts to dial the police, so Joe brains him with a mausoleum vase.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The vault represents a tiny echo of the Lenin mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square.
    Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Inside the mausoleum, a small podium was set up along with 24 chairs in three rows.
    CBS News, 9 June 2020
  • Rogers died of cancer in 2003 and is buried in the family mausoleum there.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Some scorn the aesthetic as that of a giant mausoleum: bleak and cold.
    Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
  • If the ashes are deposited in an urn, will it be placed in a mausoleum?
    USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Hedges surround a sleek black tombstone and a gray mausoleum.
    Sarah Hume, The Courier-Journal, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In the mausoleum, both his grandfather and his father lie in state.
    New York Times, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Some are buried in the ground and covered with flowers while others are left at the center of vast mausoleums.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
  • Those looking to book their 50-minute tours in advance can do so through the mausoleum’s website.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Pope Leo X hired Michelangelo to design and build the mausoleum.
    New York Times, 30 May 2021
  • Work on the mausoleum atop a hill at the shrine had already begun when this latest change of mind was announced.
    Farai Mutsaka, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
  • So green burials do not use stones or mausoleums or crypts or anything like that.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The scene ends with the truck flying through a mausoleum, also made from Styrofoam blocks.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • She was cremated and her ashes were to be placed in a mausoleum at a later date.
    Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Hefner, who famously put Monroe on the front cover of the first Playboy magazine in 1953, is interred in the same mausoleum.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2024

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