How to Use obelisk in a Sentence

obelisk

noun

• An August 2011 earthquake left cracks in the stones near the top of the obelisk.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• She's worked for Texas Pipe for 30 years and has the glass obelisk on her desk to prove it.
  — Chris Gray, Houston Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2018
• The obelisk first arrived in Rome during the reign of Caligula.
  — William Gurstelle, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• His tomb in Père-Lachaise Cemetery is marked with an obelisk.
  — Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• The stone obelisk was erected on the grounds of the Fairfax County Courthouse in 1904.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
• The league is built to be an annual snow globe, and the Patriots are an obelisk at the top of the league.
  — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• Brenda Guise drove with her husband, Dave, from Stephenville, Texas, to see the obelisk.
  — Ian Bateson, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
• The obelisk at his grave was shipped by steamboat from New Orleans.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2020
• From Broadway, looking south, the obelisk would have stood out.
  — Greg Goldin, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• These were the same kind of guys who were building these obelisks so many thousands of years ago.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 June 2019
• If the efforts turn up a big black obelisk somewhere, so much the better.
  — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2018
• Made to order in Egypt, the obelisk was then shipped back to Benevento.
  — Susan Delson, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• The state forbid the city from removing the obelisk, so the city hid the base behind a plywood screen in 2017.
  — Anna Beahm | [e-mail], al, 13 June 2020
• The Luxor Obelisk, an ancient Egyptian obelisk mounted in the place in the 1830s, anchors the open space.
  — Melissa Liebling-Goldberg, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2018
• In front of the border checkpoint stood a large white obelisk and a red Soviet star.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• In the yard were a stone obelisk and a pyramid covered with intricate tiles.
  — AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• The spokesman said the roads are separated by a ditch and there are obelisks marking the border.
  — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2019
• Idea #5: Standard stone looks anything but in an obelisk-meets-chevron shape.
  — Sarah Bray, House Beautiful, 24 June 2014
• As the day progressed, the ropes used to move the obelisk started to slip and lengthen, endangering the outcome of the project.
  — William Gurstelle, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• Two years ago, an obelisk erected in 1874 to mark the spot where Cook was killed, on Kealakekua Bay, was vandalized.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• The movement of the 30-foot obelisk was ordered by a county judge, after the city called it a threat to public safety.
  — Devon M. Sayers, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
• In the heart of town, the 252-foot Pilgrim Monument obelisk is visible for miles.
  — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2022
• Their names — as well as those of 11 others who died in Mexico, Havana and at sea — are inscribed on the base of the obelisk.
  — Blake Pontchartrain, NOLA.com, 2 Nov. 2020
• His vertical image puts our famed obelisk right in the middle of the picture.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
• An obelisk pilfered from ancient Egypt in the early days of the Roman Empire soared.
  — Kerri Westenberg, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2017
• At the center stands a monolith, like a natural obelisk.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• The obelisk has been there since at least 2016, according to Google satellite images.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2020
• The men drove a wooden obelisk into the spongy ground and gathered around it for a series of photographs.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• The plan was for the obelisk to rise out of a classic Greek pavilion at its base; the sketches suggest a unicorn sunk in a wedding cake.
  — Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2021
• On one side of the obelisk, a woman representing liberty carries a Phrygian cap atop a pole.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024