How to Use national monument in a Sentence

national monument

noun
  • The store is close to the monument sites but is not part of the new national monument.
    George Petras, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • Most of our national monuments would have to be torn down.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
  • Some of the parcels up for auction are just outside the national monument.
    Sammy Roth Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
  • There have been three attempts to create a national monument at the Great Bend of the Gila.
    Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2021
  • But even after the site was named a national monument, progress was slow.
    Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The bill would declare the island, owned by New York state, a national monument.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2024
  • The tour starts with a Grand Canyon stop to announce plans for a new national monument to preserve more than a million acres.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The 1000-plus acre park has been a national monument for more than half a century.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Well, a detached unit of the national monument 11 miles away.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 19 May 2021
  • In the last month, vandals have struck the national monument outside the bar four times, snapping dozens of its rainbow flags in half.
    Michael Wilson, New York Times, 25 June 2023
  • This week, the trees in the national park were believed to be faring better than those in the national monument.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The proclamation of Bears Ears as a national monument was the first step in recognizing the wrongness of this and of putting forth a new vision.
    David Gessner, Outside Online, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The site will now be listed in the country’s national monuments database.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Dún Aonghasa is over 3,000 years old, and a national monument of Ireland.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The national monument only reopened to the public last week, after a nine-month close due to the pandemic.
    Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2021
  • For context, Koningshaven Bridge, which dates back to 1878, has been through a Nazi bombing and is now a national monument.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2022
  • One of them is the Oura Church (1864), a site in Endo’s novel and today a Japanese national monument.
    M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The United States designates the fort as a national monument and historic shrine.
    Ellen Knickmeyer, baltimoresun.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Last month, Italy declared the waters around Venice a national monument and banned large cruise ships from entering.
    Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2021
  • That fresco gave the villa — a national monument — its name.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2020
  • The plant then spread south along the Interstate 10 corridor and into Pinal County, which is where the national monument is.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The fox squirrel has been on the mind of Helen Fitting, a biologist for the park service stationed at the national monument, for years.
    Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Cozy rooms convenient to the Fossil Beds national monument in a hotel built in 1938.
    Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Samman has appealed to politicians to make the memorial at the farm a national monument and to raise more funds to continue adding names and maintain it.
    Carlie Porterfield, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The trip, on which each veteran is joined by an escort, will take them to national monuments and war memorials for the first time for five days at no cost to the veteran.
    Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The woman started climbing shortly after 3 p.m. on what officials described as one of the busiest days of the year for the national monument.
    New York Times, 4 July 2018
  • This will be the first fireworks display at the national monument in 10 years, as the tradition was stopped by the National Park service after it was deemed to be a fire risk.
    Grace Segers, CBS News, 3 July 2020
  • A year later, it was dedicated as the first national monument to gay rights.
    Patrick Garvin, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2018
  • The Obama administration designated the bar and Christopher Park, located across the street, as a national monument.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 20 June 2024
  • As millions of Americans flock to the nation's coasts, islands and national monuments this summer, experts have a sobering message: Climate change is rapidly reshaping some of the United States' most iconic destinations.
    Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 30 June 2024

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