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 movement to pare back the role of police isn't a monolith, though.
    CNN, 17 June 2020
  • The sun shot right down the hallway, hitting the monolith and the stone marker.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Ropes were then placed around the monolith, then chains, but the stubborn stone wouldn’t yield.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 3 June 2020
  • By the third cycle, the monoliths were removing 75% of the PFOA in three hours.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The monolith found in the Nevada desert appears similar to the ones found in 2020.
    Christopher Brito, CBS News, 18 June 2024
  • Read more about the first days of the monolith’s appearance in Bellvue here.
    Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 3 July 2024
  • This one appeared a few days after the monolith in the Utah desert was removed.
    Brett Harman, CNN, 4 Dec. 2020
  • But not everyone wants, or has space for, a huge monolith of a PC in their home.
    Harry Rabinowitz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The bottom line: There are no monoliths in this election.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 18 July 2024
  • The Xbox Series X is a Kubrickian black monolith with a weird grate and an alien green light on top.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The movement is not a monolith, and looks different from state to state.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Joe can’t think of their union like some sort of non-eroding stone, a monolith to their romance.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • The mysterious origins of the monoliths led some to think they were brought by UFOs.
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2024
  • Yet the Black voting bloc is hardly a monolith and has diverse views.
    Donna M. Owens, Essence, 29 July 2021
  • Why, then, do podcasts tend to get handled like a monolith?
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Even at the height of GOP dominance, Arizona wasn't a monolith.
    Jonathan J. Cooper and Bob Christie, Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020
  • This week, there was a debate — over whether the Las Vegas monolith was placed by aliens or humans, of course!
    Holly J. Morris, NPR, 28 June 2024
  • At the center stands a monolith, like a natural obelisk.
    Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • The monolith found in the desert in Utah has disappeared, and there are plenty of theories around it.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2020
  • But be cautious: because Gen Z itself is hardly a monolith.
    Julia Dhar, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • This week, various people who’ve worked for or with Adams and his administration cautioned me not to think of him and his circle as a monolith.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024

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