How to Use monolith in a Sentence

monolith

noun
  • The media monolith owns a number of networks.
  • The new office building is a massive steel and concrete monolith.
  • The sun shot right down the hallway, hitting the monolith and the stone marker.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
  • It has been said too many times over the last week, but Black voters are no monolith.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • There is no monolith, no secret base on the rim of a lunar crater.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Yet, investors should be aware that tech is not a monolith.
    Jon Markman, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • But not everyone wants, or has space for, a huge monolith of a PC in their home.
    Harry Rabinowitz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
  • This is not to say that the AAPI community is a monolith.
    NBC News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Which is kind of the point as Black people, and the Black experience, is not a monolith.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Fidel is dead, his ashes tucked away in a monolith that looks like a prop from the Flintstones movie.
    Carlos Eire, National Review, 14 July 2021
  • No group in the U.S. is a monolith, although research has treated them as such.
    Mario Carrasco, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Yet the Black voting bloc is hardly a monolith and has diverse views.
    Donna M. Owens, Essence, 29 July 2021
  • At the center stands a monolith, like a natural obelisk.
    Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • Still-older Bowman raises his arm and points to something standing at the foot of the bed: a monolith.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • How does something so doofy, like risking a limb to scale a teetering monolith of milk crates, catch on in the first place?
    Luke Winkie, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The idea of Latinos moving as a monolith or like a cohesive voting bloc is a myth.
    Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Lucerys is killed when Aemond loses control of his mount, Vhagar, the winged monolith that sends the small boy to a watery grave.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The most visible parts of the monoliths are their heads, as their torsos are buried underground.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Now, a fresh crop of cookbooks crisply dispense with the notion that Indian food is a monolith.
    Meher Mirza, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023
  • First of all, the Chinese Communist Party -it looks like a monolith.
    CBS News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The sky-high monolith that’s part of Gillette’s glow-up looked like a monument to a glorious past that feels further and further afield from the field.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But the nation’s 3 million public school teachers are far from a monolith.
    Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • El Capitan is the 3,000-foot-high granite monolith near the west entrance of Yosemite Valley that has challenged the world’s elite climbers for decades.
    Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Yet the poll also reveals the ways in which both parties risk losing AAPI voters by treating them as a monolith.
    Time, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Leonhardt said the media is no monolith, but in this moment, most of the coverage is not overreacting to the threats of the variant.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 19 Dec. 2021
  • It’s about differences within the vaccine-resistant group, which turns out to be not a monolith at all.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The royal family, the President added, was not a monolith.
    Bykevin Bohn, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2022
  • To layer on even more confusion, India is not a monolith.
    Rajiv Satyal, Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • One reason is that the voting preferences of different and racial groups are not static and no racial group votes as a monolith.
    ABC News, 15 Aug. 2021
  • And though the fragrances that fall under the Old Lady Perfume umbrella aren’t a monolith, there are some common threads.
    Jane Daly, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Aug. 2022

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