Monolith Sentence Examples

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  • Near Kempoch point is a monolith of mica-schist, 6 ft.

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  • Then, one day, a black monolith appears.

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  • This is a giant sandstone monolith rising nearly 400 meters above the surrounding desert.

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  • Monolith's F.E.A.R. is published by VU Games and is rated M for Mature.

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  • This monolith was raised by the people of Dunvegan, using ropes and a wooden A-frame.

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  • Jain monolith statue carved by an unknown mason in 980.

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  • I had never seen it before and somehow I knew this weedy monolith must mark the lair of Decay.

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  • The people quite rightly mistrust the giant bureaucratic monolith which is Brussels.

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  • At one point, quite unsigned, by a Sustrans marker, is a big concrete monolith.

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  • A very ancient monolith in the graveyard is inscribed in Latin and is of archeological interest.

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  • Brandberg Mountain is an ancient Bushman spiritual site and tonight we will sleep under the shadow of this giant granite monolith.

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  • A slate monolith was very generously donated by McAlpine Slate Ltd. from the Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda.

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  • Right know she 's making these strange warbling noises to a huge empty cornflakes box that stands monolith like on the floor.

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  • A mysterious monolith, a large rectangular object of densest black, is somehow erected in their midst.

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  • You will arrive at a huge art decor monolith.

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  • From the main pedestal project four buttresses, on which are seated four monolith figures representing Morality, Education, Law, and Freedom.

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  • The next class of dam to be considered is that in which the structure as a whole is so bound together that, with certain reservations, it may be considered as a monolith subject chiefly to the overturning tendency of waterpressure resisted by the weight of the structure itself and the supporting pressure of the foundation.

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  • A portion of its western front, adorned with monolith unfluted Corinthian columns, is still standing - the familiar " Stoa of Hadrian "; another well-preserved portion, with six pilasters, runs parallel to the west side of Aeolus Street.

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  • They appear to be connected with Semitic sun-worship, and are assigned by Bent to the same period as the temple at Baalbek, though some antiquarians would place them much earlier; the representation of a castle in a single stone seems to bear some relation to the idea worked out in the monolith churches of Lalibela described byRaffray.

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  • Beyond the outer circle (not shown on plan) a great monolith - the sun stone, or so-called "Friar's Heel" - standing on the axis of the horseshoe, marks the point where a spectator, centrally placed within the horseshoe, would see the sun rise on the horizon at the solstice.

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  • It is circular internally and decagonal externally, in two storeys, built of marble blocks, and surmounted by an enormous monolith, brought from the quarries of Istria and weighing more than 300 tons.

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  • Of Apries (Haa-ab-ra, Hophra) an obeliskand two monolith shrines are the principal remains.

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  • The societies advised that trilithon 6, 7, with lintel - which had slewed round - and trilithon 56, which was leaning at a dangerous angle, should be examined with a view to replacement with as little excavation as possible; that the monolith and lintel 22 be replaced, and its companion sarsen (21) secured; and that trilithon 57, 58, should be re-erected in its place, which was exactly known.

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